Songs Ripped From Cds Fine, Except Song Time Is Too Long

[maspa]

Have been using Creator 2009 with only 1 problem that I can't solve. For some reason, all songs that I rip from CDs show the time (length) of the song is double of what the length of the sond actually is. Generally, it doesn't present a problem when I download to my ipod from Roxio, but occassionally I will rip using itunes and when I add an itunes ripped song to a playlist, there is a long, silent gap (equal to the actual lenght of the song) between it and the next song. Has anyone ever experienced this issue of Roxio doubling the time length of songs ripped from CDs?

[maspa]

not sure I follow you

 

I would transfer the files from the external drive to ipod using RC 2009; at some I can't recall exactly the steps but RC 2009 would open itunes automatically and the transfer would the occur

 

thanks

 

maspa

[maspa]

Sounds to me like ripping with itunes is the problem?

 

Thanks for responding

 

yes, I won't use itunes for ripping going forward but any idea why Roxio doubles the time of every song when I rip?

[cdanteek]

Thanks for responding

 

yes, I won't use itunes for ripping going forward but any idea why Roxio doubles the time of every song when I rip?

 

Rip some new CD's with Roxio and see if the time doubles?

[maspa]

Rip some new CD's with Roxio and see if the time doubles?

 

 

Yes did so and still doubling time

[cdanteek]

Have been using Creator 2009 with only 1 problem that I can't solve. For some reason, all songs that I rip from CDs show the time (length) of the song is double of what the length of the sond actually is. Generally, it doesn't present a problem when I download to my ipod from Roxio, but occassionally I will rip using itunes and when I add an itunes ripped song to a playlist, there is a long, silent gap (equal to the actual lenght of the song) between it and the next song. Has anyone ever experienced this issue of Roxio doubling the time length of songs ripped from CDs?

 

Sounds to me like ripping with itunes is the problem?

[cdanteek]

Yes did so and still doubling time

 

There is no charge for how many words you post!

 

Tell us in detail in what application of Creator 2009 your using to rip and it's doubling the time?

 

Now this doubling the time is what shows up in a player? What player?

 

Just explain it in as much detail as you can so we could try and reproduce it...

[maspa]

Ha! careful what you wish for!

 

Background- I have a Dell laptop w Windows XP. Its a company laptop so they frown on loading unauthorized software of which RC 2009 is one. As you know, its hard to hide because it takes up a lot of disk space so I download the software to the same external drive that store my lossless music files. This may be part of the problem.

 

I've now done a second clean uninstall and reached out to the forum to consider either giving RC 2009 one more try or go with dbpoweramp, since I only use RC 2009 for music. That said , I would miss the editing function to edit music tracks.

 

Since its no longer installed, I'm going from memory on navigation. I usually would hit the Rip icon on the dashboard although I remeber somtimes hitting the music notes icon on the left side. Ripping is pretty straightforward. All my files are saved as .wav files on the external drive. All the songs ripped to the extrnal drive have the correct time length.

 

Its when I download to the ipod. RC 2009 has no problem interfacing with itunes. Its just the result is that the time length of each song is double the actual length. Maybe its because I compress them as AAC files on the ipod. The little time bar on the ipod is exactly at the mid-point when the song ends. It hasn't been a problem with all the songs downloaded to the ipod using RC 2009. In otherwords, when I do a playlist or shuffle, there's no extended gap between each song that's exclusively ripped and downloaded t0 the ipod using RC 2009. But when I just want to rip a quick song using itunes, which is on my laptop drive, there is a gap between the itunes ripped and downloaded songs and the RC 2009 downloaded songs from my external drive.

 

Same gap problem exists when I ripped and downloaded with dbpoweramp.

 

Promise there's no charge by the word?

 

thanks

 

maspa

[gi7omy]

One question - are you trying to use itunes directly (from the download)?

 

If so there always was a problem - what you need to do is burn a CD (or CD-RW) using Apple's own software and then rip that