I was "cleaning" and found some old DTS CD's that I'd misplaced a decade or so ago. I was psych'd to find them. Apparently they were in a DTS compatible CD 400 disc changer I had back then and went I got rid of the changer I stashed these in a pile and "lost" them until now.
Anyway, I digress (as usual). I had this demo DTS CD that had a track I really liked, a Jazz track, so I figured I'd rip the whole CD to files and then I could use the test tracks in the car and add the tracks to my digital library. Well, not so fast.
I fired up the big PC, put the CD in, started Foobar, and it started to play, but is sounded weird, and fast, and then stopped! I found the track I wanted and went to convert it with Foobar and the results were bad - errors all over the place. I then went WAYBACK and dug out Tranzcode and after extracting the one song into Sound Forge as a DTS encoded track, I used Tranzcode and got the 6 .wav files, which I put back into Sound Forge, but a 5.1 wav file, and went to play it. It sounded horrible, and fast. It then bailed after about a minute with no more audio after that.
So - I took the disc into my car and it played perfectly!!!??? What's up with that. Brought it to the Oppo in the living room and it played fine there.
I give up! Anyone heard of this before, or have I forgotten some oddball thing about early DTS CDs?
Anyway, I digress (as usual). I had this demo DTS CD that had a track I really liked, a Jazz track, so I figured I'd rip the whole CD to files and then I could use the test tracks in the car and add the tracks to my digital library. Well, not so fast.
I fired up the big PC, put the CD in, started Foobar, and it started to play, but is sounded weird, and fast, and then stopped! I found the track I wanted and went to convert it with Foobar and the results were bad - errors all over the place. I then went WAYBACK and dug out Tranzcode and after extracting the one song into Sound Forge as a DTS encoded track, I used Tranzcode and got the 6 .wav files, which I put back into Sound Forge, but a 5.1 wav file, and went to play it. It sounded horrible, and fast. It then bailed after about a minute with no more audio after that.
So - I took the disc into my car and it played perfectly!!!??? What's up with that. Brought it to the Oppo in the living room and it played fine there.
I give up! Anyone heard of this before, or have I forgotten some oddball thing about early DTS CDs?
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