Ripping a Bit-Rotted CD

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

Breaks?! D&B?! With Sega?!

Dude, you have to hook me up with a few of the tracks that work, my ears beg to hear!

PM Sent!

I plan on uploading the whole thing here when (Or if) the rip is possible, so far EAC is working out pretty well. It's been reading the CD at 0.2x! But at least it's getting some progress done on possibly ripping a copy.

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

EAC should be a good choice, but I haven't used it myself in quite some time. CDEX is what I use and is also very good. In settings > CD drive settings > ripping method there's a setting called 'Paranoia Full" which is probably comparable to some setting in EAC and either one of those is probably the best you're going to get. But I would try ripping the damaged tracks on every drive you have available to you as different drives are going to react to the errors differently.

And yes, disc rot happens. If the formulation of the plastic is wrong, it can let in oxygen and the aluminum layer oxidizes or even chemicals in the plastic itself can attack the aluminum layer.

Thanks, will do if EAC fails!

[Limewater]

Yes he should use Linux because EAC doesn't exist

You're right. Only ONE suggestion should ever be given if someone asks for advice. Once one suggestion has been given, no further messages should be posted. How could I have been so foolish?

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

Yes he should use Linux because EAC doesn't exist

You're right. Only ONE suggestion should ever be given if someone asks for advice. Once one suggestion has been given, no further messages should be posted. How could I have been so foolish?

Don't take it personal, man.

I'll definitely try if I can't get any windows solutions to work.

[Anapan]

First, blow out your DVD drive with compressed air (It might help get a bit better results) then run Infinadyne CD/DVD Diagnostic. Set it to retry a large number of times and guess the data it can't get. It'll read and re-read the disc until it gets something. Anything it can't recover is gone, but you should get most of the data back.

I've had it grind away at one of my first burnt CDs for several hours when I could only get a few of the hundreds of files on it through windows regularly and it managed to get 85% of the files back.

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

First, blow out your DVD drive with compressed air (It might help get a bit better results) then run Infinadyne CD/DVD Diagnostic. Set it to retry a large number of times and guess the data it can't get. It'll read and re-read the disc until it gets something. Anything it can't recover is gone, but you should get most of the data back.

I've had it grind away at one of my first burnt CDs for several hours when I could only get a few of the hundreds of files on it through windows regularly and it managed to get 85% of the files back.

It's been reading one track in EAC for nearly two hours now, so I'm gonna let it finish that first.

[jfe2]

First, blow out your DVD drive with compressed air (It might help get a bit better results) then run Infinadyne CD/DVD Diagnostic. Set it to retry a large number of times and guess the data it can't get. It'll read and re-read the disc until it gets something. Anything it can't recover is gone, but you should get most of the data back.

I've had it grind away at one of my first burnt CDs for several hours when I could only get a few of the hundreds of files on it through windows regularly and it managed to get 85% of the files back.

It's been reading one track in EAC for nearly two hours now, so I'm gonna let it finish that first.

Not sure if that's a good sign or not...

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

First, blow out your DVD drive with compressed air (It might help get a bit better results) then run Infinadyne CD/DVD Diagnostic. Set it to retry a large number of times and guess the data it can't get. It'll read and re-read the disc until it gets something. Anything it can't recover is gone, but you should get most of the data back.

I've had it grind away at one of my first burnt CDs for several hours when I could only get a few of the hundreds of files on it through windows regularly and it managed to get 85% of the files back.

It's been reading one track in EAC for nearly two hours now, so I'm gonna let it finish that first.

Not sure if that's a good sign or not...

The progress meter went from 88.6% to 94.3% so I'm just gonna let it do it's thing.

[Niode]

EAC can take a long time to rip bad discs. My Tool - 10,000 days takes forever to rip but plays without problem for some reason.

If you have never used EAC before then you should really set it up first.

Here is the best guide available. It's the one that What.cd recommends everyone to use, they're very very anal about what constitutes as a good rip and what doesn't.

[fast]

Since you own the disc, you could just download it. Its on several trackers.

Edit:
My mistake I see you want it as FLAC.