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[Jeff W.]

I just ripped 170+ CDs.  I used Monkey's Ape on Normal setting.
I have what sounds like record ticks.
I am using a Dell Pentium 3.06 ghz, 512 MB Ram
I bought a seperate 160 Gig Seagate Baracudda drive for the data.
I re-ripped some with secure turned on and 4x rip speed.
These clicks continue..

Any Ideas?

[MarSies]

Hi,

Sometimes I get this problem when my computer is extremely busy. I always RIP while using other heavy programs.

And maybe your CD's are just damaged. Maybe your normal CD player corrects the errors. And your PC CDplayer just not!

MarSies .....

[JohnT]

Could you post your system info (from MC's help menu) here? Do you have clicks on all the ripped tracks or just some of them?

[Jeff W.]

I think that I solved it!
I bumped the bios up to the latest ver.  .03
It is a Dell 8300, and never really performed as a 3 gig machine should.  I have been updating the drivers as it was a new model for them.  Well I hadn't checked for a few months.. and low and behold there was a new bios.
My crackling diappeared!
I tried going straight .wav and still had the problem.  That told me that it wasn't the encoder/decoder.  I figured that it was a computer I/O problem and went to check for the latest drivers..

[JohnT]

Thanks for letting us know the solution. This may help others in the same situation.

- John T.