http://www.netsua.com/blog/ipod-bad-ipod-good Everyone's favorite person - only backwards Sat, 11 Oct 2008 06:37:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.netsua.com/blog/ipod-bad-ipod-good#comment-14397 Michael Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:38:22 +0000 http://www.netsua.com/blog/ipod-bad-ipod-good#comment-14397 It seems to be assumed that putting a CD onto an ipod (8GB nano, in my case) produces a near perfect result. My experience, and I guess that of others, is that this is not always the case. The faults fall into two categories:- (a) A regular "ticking" accompanying the music. This tends to ocur towards the end of a CD. Since the CD plays from inside to outside (I think)this seems to occur when the CD is spinning faster (than it does on the inner "grooves"). Don't know why this should happen but can't think of any other reason! (b) Irregular crunch noises or brief silences when the music is played on the ipod AND when the same music is played on the computer from the itunes library. I have re-imported the music from the CD, with and without cleaning it, to no avail. Looking closely at the CD reveals no obvious defects. I guess that importing the music from a CD into itunes is MUCH more sensitive to faults in the CD than simply playing the CD on a CD player. Certainly, when I play the "defective" CD on my CD player none of these faults can be heard. Some of the CDs produce a perfect result but this seems not to be related to the age of the CD. In fact, these kinds of problems are not new to me. I have similar problems when copying a CD onto a blank CD. Glitches are quite common, particularly towards the end of the CD. Glitches also occurred with Sony ATRAC compression for a Sony Walkman that I still have. Glitch-free copying seems to be a so far unattainable Holy Grail!! It seems to be assumed that putting a CD onto an ipod (8GB nano, in my case) produces a near perfect result. My experience, and I guess that of others, is that this is not always the case. The faults fall into two categories:-
(a) A regular “ticking” accompanying the music. This tends to ocur towards the end of a CD. Since the CD plays from inside to outside (I think)this seems to occur when the CD is spinning faster (than it does on the inner “grooves”). Don’t know why this should happen but can’t think of any other reason!
(b) Irregular crunch noises or brief silences when the music is played on the ipod AND when the same music is played on the computer from the itunes library. I have re-imported the music from the CD, with and without cleaning it, to no avail. Looking closely at the CD reveals no obvious defects. I guess that importing the music from a CD into itunes is MUCH more sensitive to faults in the CD than simply playing the CD on a CD player. Certainly, when I play the “defective” CD on my CD player none of these faults can be heard.
Some of the CDs produce a perfect result but this seems not to be related to the age of the CD.
In fact, these kinds of problems are not new to me. I have similar problems when copying a CD onto a blank CD. Glitches are quite common, particularly towards the end of the CD. Glitches also occurred with Sony ATRAC compression for a Sony Walkman that I still have.
Glitch-free copying seems to be a so far unattainable Holy Grail!!

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