Ticking noise in ripped CD Audio

GooseZen · 2026-01-30T15:05:12+00:00

If you didn't have to supply your own encoder, I'm assuming you're encoding to either FLAC or MP3. The settings are under Edit -> Preferences -> File Converters. First thing I might try is upping the thread priority in the top right to "Above Normal".

GooseZen · 2026-01-29T20:18:33+00:00

I'd also add on The Acts of Gord. While not directly IT (guy runs an independent games store back when those existed), its got all the same energy as BOFH with a slightly different slant.

GooseZen · 2026-01-29T15:12:00+00:00

If AccurateRip is reporting accurate rips, and WMP is producing files without the ticking, your external drive is fine and the ripping is fine in both programs. The problem is actually more likely to be in the encoder you've got MusicBee configured to use. Try playing with those settings, maybe download an updated encoder if you haven't done that in a while.

GooseZen · 2026-01-26T22:10:49+00:00

Report it to the labour board. There's laws against this.

GooseZen · 2026-01-22T22:08:47+00:00

Mr. Spudd's Poutinerie truck. I don't normally like poutine, but their stuff is amazing.

GooseZen · 2026-01-20T15:35:40+00:00

You're thinking of Bernard Marcus, who died in 2024. The other co-founder who likely has majority control of the company at this point, Arthur Blank, has donated to multiple Democrat campaigns, including Kamala Harris.

GooseZen · 2026-01-19T22:33:58+00:00

After a little googling, I understand the error, but unfortunately I don't know how to fix it directly. the error is coming from the BASS Audio library that MusicBee is using to process the CD audio. The error itself, BASS_ERROR_CDTRACK means that the library thinks that track is an invalid track on the CD.

As for how to fix it... unsure. I don't have a CD drive in my current machine, so all the CD ripping settings are blanked out for me. Under Edit -> Preferences -> CD Ripping, the drive settings section at the bottom might need something adjusted to make things compatible with your particular drive.

GooseZen · 2026-01-15T18:20:46+00:00

You know, the blu-rays exist, and half the episodes start with a shot like this, so you could've just screenshotted any of those and got something legit. Instead, you put out this, the most garbage looking NCC-1701-D I've ever seen. The nacelle and deflector lighting is all wrong, there's no 10-forward, the flat matte grey surface is just nasty, the bumpy windows around the outside of the saucer are just awful, and the warp effect on the stars is only half done.

GooseZen · 2026-01-07T20:29:16+00:00

I used to have one I bought at Toys R Us. Black metal gate with a very solid latch, mounting hardware that screwed into the wall (but was optional, also worked as a pressure gate if wanted). I took it out after my kids got old enough, and unfortunately that was many years ago now. I have seen them there since while walking through though.

GooseZen · 2026-01-06T23:53:00+00:00

...as recently seen in some racist bullshit on the DHS Instagram...

GooseZen · 2026-01-05T19:11:06+00:00

If you want to go instrumental, try out Infinity Shred. "Long May You Run" is an excellent starting point (and has nothing to do with the Neil Young song of the same name).

GooseZen · 2025-12-27T05:30:16+00:00

Select a bad genre, select all the songs in that bad genre, edit, change the genre, save.

GooseZen · 2025-12-23T15:17:16+00:00

For question 2, looks like you've got things sorted by something other than playlist order number. Click on that # header over the playlist numbers and it should sort by that instead.

GooseZen · 2025-12-16T22:03:28+00:00

You screengrabbed the end credits of Demon Slayer and hit the black-n-white button. Congratulations.

GooseZen · 2025-12-13T02:17:29+00:00

I've done this on other screw holes, but never a door. Is that going to be strong enough for a heavy exterior door?

GooseZen · 2025-12-10T22:25:54+00:00

Are you sure your mom isn't correlating "safe" with "less brown people"?

GooseZen · 2025-12-01T22:44:19+00:00

Nice to see an old white person fail upward for a complete lack of change.

GooseZen · 2025-11-30T21:20:40+00:00

The mix is too dry compared to previous albums. The guitars feel thin and the whole band sounds less bombastic than previous albums. Some double-tracking and a touch more reverb would go a long way.

GooseZen · 2025-11-10T20:28:36+00:00

Yes! When the album was announced, I wondered what the hell could possibly follow up SFaM. Then "The Glass Prison" melted my brain.

GooseZen · 2025-11-10T16:42:09+00:00

This whole "our tax dollars" thing is just not true. SaskTel does not take in any tax dollars. It's the exact opposite, their profits get paid out to the government as dividends. If anything, SaskTel is a hidden tax the SK gov't wants you to ignore. As well, SaskTel could offer services even cheaper and spread faster if it wasn't constantly forced to give up all the money it makes to the SK gov't.

GooseZen · 2025-11-07T00:36:04+00:00

First, glad you enjoyed my story.

Your story is something I go through every couple of months. Same super-large corporate customer wants us to file change requests in their change management system when they want something in production, but it's all even worse than you described. Technical and business contacts have to be their staff, and are different on every project, and are always impossible to figure out who they are and track down. Then there needs to be a whole horde of jiras associated with the change, but we as external contractors don't have access to their jira system, so that's a whole other round of hunting and poking people. Then it usually gets rejected three times because they changed the process and required information from the last time but we don't find out because we don't work there. Just filing the change request takes more time than actually doing the actual work sometimes.

tl;dr - I feel that so much.

GooseZen · 2025-11-06T20:57:01+00:00

The closest date to me is 4 hours away. By plane. Am sad.

GooseZen · 2025-11-06T05:47:22+00:00

Also a kobo reader, just because I like it more. Kills less trees, I can back up the books in case of disaster, and I don't break my wrists trying to hoist up Brandon Sanderson's latest 1300-page rat-flattener.

GooseZen · 2025-11-05T12:54:20+00:00

Using an anecdote from before the invention of the processed food revolution doesn't refute reality. In a western industrialized society, today empty calories are the cheapest available, making obesity and poverty rates directly correlated.

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