After many frustrating hours they have at last agreed to send out a replacement CD drive but won't accept that there is a problem so I suspect that many others will have to endure the same frustrating response from Dell.
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I have the same problem with some non-Warner CDs such as the Flaming Lips "Yoshimi battles the pink robots" and "Soft bulletin" and Damien Rice "O" to name a few. Of course the CDs play fine on every other CD player and computer known to mankind.ĭell have been pretty unhelpful and have blamed Windows 7, the CDs, and even suggested that it isn't a problem that my computer won't play a number of my favourite CDs. Several of the CDs are Warner CDs including Madonna "Music" and "Confessions on a dance floor" (embarrassing but true). If I try to rip the CDto iTunes the track retains the distortion. The problem is the same regardless of whether I play via iTunes or Windows media player. They distort badly, especially the higher frequencies which just sound like white noise. I have a new Dell XPS 8100 with a TSSTcorpDVD+- RW TS-H653G DVD/CD-ROM drive and can't play about 10% of my CDs. I have exactly the same problem and found this thread via Google. So, if this is the cause of the problem, then judging by the experiences of both timmyo and myself, it would seem that the TS-H653G does not have the ability to correct these deliberate corruptions, and the GH50N does. Some computer optical drives don't have sufficiently sophisticated error correction to handle this, hence the corruption is clearly audible. This is done in such a way that the error correction in audio CD players can correct these frames by interpolation, to produce a smooth signal with (allegedly) no audible effects of the copy protection. It seems highly likely that the problem is a copy protection method thought to be used by certain companies (notably Warner), which (according to information on Wikipedia) works by corrupting certain frames of the data on the CD. It's not necessarily older CDs though - I've had the problem with several brand new releases (actually remastered versions of older albums, though that's probably irrelevant). They work fine in audio CD players though.
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Chris, I don't have another PC handy to try the CDs in.