Defective disc 1?

[strifeknot]

The last track on disc 1 skips at around the 1:34 mark. There are no blemishes, there's no dirt, and I've tried a few different players. Anyone else have this prob?

I'd like to establish if it's a widespread pressing error or not before I return it to Amazon for an exchange, otherwise I may end up with another disc that has the same defect.

[R.Wilder]

Not on my disc. And I'm playing it on a relatively cheap CD player.

[dmz]

No problems with my copy.

[cheesetea]

I wish my copy came, consider yourself lucky

[Patrick]

Your problem is probably that it's such a long disc - with the wealth of material, we nearly maxed out the CD spec (maximum 80 minutes of music). This gives some CD players trouble.

Patrick

[strifeknot]

I doubt the length of the disc is the problem, since I've never experienced difficulty with CDs that are even longer. Both players I tried it on so far are pretty high-end and they've never given trouble with anything else. Must just be bad copy.

Thanks for the replies.

[johansen smith]

longer than the physical limit for a CD?

[strifeknot]

Right to the limit. As Patrick said, the disc is near the max, but not quite. I've made CD-Rs with slightly longer times, they work fine.

[strifeknot]

Well, the replacment disc plays through fine all the way to the end. Odd... the first copy had no blemishes at all, but the new one has a deep scuff mark 1/4" long. Plays fine, though.

[cheesetea]

Mazel Tov

[Jimmy777]

I've had exactly the same problem - twice. I exchanged the first copy at Borders, the second copy is no better. I'm pretty certain it's not a problem with my CD drive. I frequently overburn 80 CD-Rs (so they're about 82-83 minutes), and have never had a problem reading them back. Tried ripping it with EAC, but that didn't work. Looks like I'm going to have to return this copy too. Or is there some way I can get a replacement directly from Matador?

[Jimmy777]

Update on my 'defective' disc 1. I was going to return it this evening, and just to be sure decided to try it out on my old mp3/cd player. And guess what? It worked fine! Tried it on another cd player and it worked there too. So it must be the cd/dvd drive in my computer that's fucking up (I also noticed yesterday that it's not reading dvd-roms anymore, so it might be on its last legs). Anyway, turns out there's no problem with the disc after all. Sorry for ever having doubted you, Matador :)