Hello, Frank Barknecht wrote: > > cdparanoia did not help :( > > Not all is lost: Try to find another computer with another CD drive. > Various drives handle these kinds of broken CDs differently. Thanks. I'll try this idea. > You could > also do an analogue copy, which can be of almost the same quality as a > digital rip. Now if I only get my CD player fixed... And this is probably what I need to do next. After all, this may be merely a poor recording, and the clicks, to think of it, sound remarkably like clipping. > Other than that I can only think of searching some P2P networks for > the contents of your CD, which you are kept away from although you > paid for it. I tried this before buying the CD. The trick is, I am dealing with rather rare music.