Superdrive Ripping Issues

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Superdrive Ripping Issues

Last week I bought an Apple Superdrive to work with my new MacBook Pro 14" with macOS Monterey 12.6, to digitalize my CD collection. I am happy with the Superdrive as it is sturdy, working intuitive and places everything well organized in my Music library. Up to now there is only one CD box including 4 CDs that the Superdrive is not able to digitalize properly. Superdrive gets the last 2 or 3 tracks of these 4 CDs only half ripped or not ripped at all. I really would like to know what the problem is. It seems the Superdrive has difficulties with the formatting of these CDs and I wonder why this is the case. The discs are produced by the Warner Music Group company, brand new, and all of average music length. Can anyone be of help in this matter?

MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 12.6

Posted on Oct 18, 2022 2:52 AM

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ed2345

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Oct 19, 2022 4:09 AM in response to Troublephone

Since things are working fine except for those particular Warner Brothers CDs, it is probably something about the CDs. If you want to do one more experiment, you can try with a different drive if one is available.

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ed2345

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Oct 18, 2022 4:36 AM in response to Troublephone

Troublephone,

There is a long history of Warner Brothers CDs not ripping correctly, presumably due to something WB has a been intentionally doing. (Here is one example thread on the topic.) If you can get access temporarily to a different computer, see if the rip works there, and if so bring the resulting files back to your computer on a flash drive.

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Troublephone Author

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Oct 19, 2022 2:52 AM in response to ed2345

Tried to rip the tracks with my Superdrive connected to a PC with Windows 10 but unfortunately with the same outcome: partitional or no ripping of those same tracks.

Nice to experience though that the Superdrive is also working perfectly well on a Windows based computer.

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Troublephone Author

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Oct 18, 2022 5:45 AM in response to ed2345

Thank you for the thread reference @ed234. That was very helpful. Will certainly try ripping it on a different computer.

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