Some CD drives read discs better than others. I think it's the way they clamp the center. If the older discs are warped, there may be read problems. It's too bad they weren't fed onto a hard drive sooner. The technology to do that was available 10 years ago. -- Tom Fine ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Spencer" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, August 05, 2013 10:07 AM Subject: [ARSCLIST] CD-R help request > Collective wisdom of the ARSC list, > > I got a message from an archivist friend, and while we haven't tried anything ourselves, I thought > I would post his message to the list to see if anyone had any ideas for recovery. > > Any help is greatly appreciated and I will forward it to him. > > Thanks in advance, > John Spencer > [log in to unmask] > -------------------------------------------------------- > I�m beginning to have some problems with many of the CD-R�s that are in the collection I work > with. Most of theseCD-R�s were made from analog sources [we thankfully still have them] over 10 > years ago, long before we had any sort of digital storage system. These CD-R�s suffer from a > variety of jitter/glitches when exported into the computer and many of them skip or hang up when > played in a CD player. They were all created using a stand-alone Sony CDR-W33 burner and the CD-R > stock was JVC/Taiyo Yuden. > > My current platform is Mac. I�ve tried a couple of different CD drives, thinking that may make a > difference, but no dice. I�ve tried copying some of them through iTunes using its built-in error > correction. I�ve downloaded MAX-a CD ripper application for Mac that uses a version of > cdparanoia�I�ve also tried Pillage, so far nothing has made any noticeable difference. > > If you have any thoughts on ways to productively do this, or know of anyone who has successfully > dealt with a problem like this, please let me know. > >