CD Drive Problems

ChickenLeg · **Posted:** Tue Jun 03, 2008 9:52 pm

So, I've noticed ever since I tried ripping all my CDs to iTunes that I've had this sound quality problem. I just recorded what it sounds like and I've noticed a lopsidedness between left and right input. I'm thinking it's the drive itself and that it may have been made in crap quality.

http://home.comcast.net/~ingrid591/lopsided.mp3

TheFacelessEvil · **Posted:** Tue Jun 03, 2008 9:53 pm

What's the brand of your drive?
How old? What speed?
What's the brand of your comp?
How old? What speed?

ChickenLeg · **Posted:** Wed Jun 04, 2008 12:39 pm

It's a LightScribe DVD Multi Recorder. We got it around four months ago so I could use the DVD-Rs I got for Christmas.

And the computer is a Dell Dimension 4700 that we got during Christmas season 2004.

That's pretty much all the specs I can give.

TheFacelessEvil · **Posted:** Wed Jun 04, 2008 6:54 pm

Hm... At this point I'd look at the tech support on the LightScribe website, or give them a call on their 800 number. It's still relatively new, so it shouldn't be screwing up already.

Your computer is old, though. There may be a compatibility issue.

ChickenLeg · **Posted:** Wed Jun 04, 2008 9:18 pm

Woahwoahwoahwoahwoah... the HP Pavilion 2700 or something my family had from Feb '97 up to Christmas '04 was old. A Dell Dimension 4700 we got Christmas '04 is not.

Yeah. Point is, I doubt there's a compatibility issue, since it worked fine up until that point.

Also, I'm making a bet that under the current economic conditions and the family's finances, my parents will get a new one in '14. Which will then become mine a few years later when they have to be shipped to the old folk's home/move in with somebody/die.

TheFacelessEvil · **Posted:** Wed Jun 04, 2008 9:19 pm

An computer device older then a month is officially old.

Leitmotif · **Joined:** Wed Jun 04, 2008 8:01 pm **Posts:** 18

It's not the drive. CD's are digital, so when you read from it, you're reading it bit-for-bit. It's a problem with either the iTunes encoder or decoder.

ChickenLeg · **Posted:** Wed Jun 04, 2008 10:36 pm

Well, it's not JUST iTunes. When I want to play a DVD, I get that audio problem that I gave an example of in the first post.

Leitmotif · **Joined:** Wed Jun 04, 2008 8:01 pm **Posts:** 18

Do you get the problem when you listen to sounds played through Flash?

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