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Audiograbber |
| Date: |
25/11/00 (171 review reads) |
| Rating: |
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Advantages: Fast and isolates individual tracks
Disadvantages: Intolerant of errors.
Just about all of the other reviews are in favour of Audiograbber, but I have to say, I am not so sure.
It seems to me that AG is very intolerant of errors. I have "grabbed" a number of CD's which I have previously burned on my PC and the results have been so poor (crackles on playing back the result) and have cost me so many replaced CD's that I have stopped using the programme. In fact, so intolerant is it, that a bad track, one with a lot of errors, which on a decent Hi-Fi system with good error correction plays back without problems, can cause the whole thing to seize up solid and the only way out is the reset button.
One thing that comes out of this is that it would appear that home-grown CD's are likely to have more errors than those which have been commercially pressed. This is maybe no great surprise. Frankly, I'm amazed PC burners work at all! As I say, I have stopped using it though now that I have a 20GB second drive for audio, I don't have to dump CD's to make room for the next one any more, I can archive up to about 20 images. However, as I say, it has cost me quite a few free replacements when I realised that I was providing poor quality CD's to my clients (singers in amateur choral groups mainly).
I therefore recommend the programme but only with reservations. If you have to audition all the material before either burning more CD's or making MP3's, you might just as well monitor as you record. Admittedly, you lose the useful feature of isolating each track automatically, but topping and tailing with something like Sound Forge works fine.
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