Subject:Static

Posted by: jerrerae

Date:9/9/2003 5:27:36 PM

I am using Sound Forge 5.0. When I extract songs from a CD I also get sounds like static electricity in the music. Has anyone else experienced this? I can take some of it out with the click and crackle removal but in most cases, there are so many of these sounds that it will not take out all of them. Even when it removes the sound it leaves a different noise in it's place. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Subject:RE: Static

Reply by: Rednroll

Date:9/9/2003 6:12:14 PM

Yes, I've run across this on several occassions with certain CD's. What you need to do is slow down the extract speed. Faster extract speeds seem to allow for less error correction. Slowing down the extract speed fixed the static problems on CD's that I found got extracted with the static as you described.

Subject:RE: Static

Reply by: jerrerae

Date:9/9/2003 6:28:36 PM

Thank you for responding. I just tried what you said at several of the speeds including the slowest but am still experiencing static, although it was slightly different at different speeds. Oddly enough it seemed to have more static at the very slowest speed. Thanks again for responding.

Subject:RE: Static

Reply by: MyST

Date:9/9/2003 8:08:12 PM

Have you tried copying the files to your hard-drive then loading them in SF?
Also, what are your system specs, including your CD drive make and age.
If you play a game off the CD, does it stutter?

M

Subject:RE: Static

Reply by: jerrerae

Date:9/10/2003 10:30:05 AM

Hi MyST,
Thanks a million! Copying them to the hard drive first seems to have done the trick!!

Subject:RE: Static

Reply by: MyST

Date:9/10/2003 3:19:22 PM

You're welcome. :)

M

Subject:RE: Static

Reply by: Chienworks

Date:9/10/2003 3:36:15 PM

Hey MyST, you've succeeded in thoroughly losing me on this one! ;)

How do you copy the tracks to the hard drive first without extracting them, and then extract them after copying them to the hard drive? When i look at an Audio CD all i see are .cda entries in the directory and i don't know of any way to copy these except by extracting them.

Subject:RE: Static

Reply by: Rednroll

Date:9/10/2003 3:47:57 PM

Chienworks,
I'm glad you said it first. I thought there was something I totally missed the boat on also.

Subject:RE: Static

Reply by: MyST

Date:9/10/2003 6:22:10 PM

Sorry, I meant extracting them from the CD via another app. Save them as waves and then load them in SF.
My suggestion was basically to see if he got better results or if he still had hiccups.
I've had problems with a CD drive before where a golf game on CD would stutter. After installing the game on the hard-drive and playing from there, everything was fine. That's why I asked about the drive. I changed the CD drive and things were much better.
I can't tell you technically why it worked for him, or even why it worked for me with the game. I remember that trying to play the game from the CD, the drive would start/stop/start/stop several times. The same install/play window would show up a couple times in a row. I got through it though and I could play from my HD. It seems it was harder on the drive to play the game in a fluid manner, but it copied to the HD alright(although in spurts).I just mentioned that as a test. It is wierd though that he didn't get static when extracting with another app.

M

Man, I gotta be on my toes with you two around. ;)

Subject:RE: Static

Reply by: Goldenears

Date:9/11/2003 2:09:57 AM

I had the same problem yesterday, a huge burst of "static", probably 5 seconds long at clipping level. I was copying a CD direct using the SF 'extract audio from CD' function. It was probably caused by running another memory hungry program at the same time - I was cleaning up .wav files in Windows Explorer during the process and didn't fancy waiting. Ended up wasting more time than I saved.
Cheers, Goldenears

Subject:RE: Static

Reply by: jerrerae

Date:9/11/2003 9:50:40 AM

Here is how I was able to copy the tracks without extracting on Sound Forge. I opened Windows Media Player and clicked on Copy from CD. It allowed me to copy any or all tracks and put them in a folder. These were copied as .wma files. Then I opened Sound Forge and just retrieved them from that folder into Sound Forge and for whatever reason, there was no static or clicks. I then converted them to .wav files using Sound Forge when saving them. I tried it on other discs that had given me problems with static and there were no more problems.

My computer does stutter when playing songs in Sound Forge or Windows Media Player at times. I haven't been able to figure that out. I've just assumed that it is because I have too many things on the computer and just lived with it that way even though it's annoying. I've never played games on the computer from a CD so I can't say if they would skip but they probably would.

Subject:RE: Static

Reply by: rraud

Date:9/11/2003 2:50:31 PM

Stuttering, clicks, pops and skipping are often due to open programs putting a load on the CPU. , ie: anti-virus, screen savers, pop-up stoppers, stealth ad-ware, real player, ect. Shut down all non-essential programs for optimal performance.
To see what running select: "Ctrl>Alt>Delete". Select "End task" to temporarily close the unwanted app.s til the next boot.

Also defraging the drives and run Scandisc before important sessions are a good practice.

Subject:RE: Static

Reply by: 72FJ40

Date:5/1/2004 7:01:51 AM

I tried this step because I still get static in the recordings I make with SFXP4.5.
I still get a huge amount of static.