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Can't ip MP3 anymore

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Cow-Man00

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Last week I replaced my old and dying IBM Deskstar (deathstar) and rebuilt my system. I got a Western Digital 80 Gig SE and reinstalled all my old hardware, software, and documents. When I came to ripping a new CD to MP3, I opened up my trusty version of CDex which has never given me problems before. Everything worked fine until I told it to rip the CD. I got 12 tracks of absolutely nothing. The dB rating was -96 all the way through, but the files still took up the amount of space they would have had there been actual audio. I thought maybe it was just my MP3 codec, so I tried ripping in WAV. Same thing, except this time the files were no more than 31k each.
So then I try ripping them in WMA and surprise surprise, it worked. So now I'm left scratching my head and wondering if perhaps some update I downloaded (I'm using XP Pro btw) had carelessly installed something from our friends at the RIAA, making it impossible to rip MP3. I also tried using Exact Audio Copy and got the same thing. The drives I'm using are a Sony 16x DVD-Rom and a Ricoh RW7200A, both of which worked fine before I redid windows. Any ideas (other than "swtich to WMA ripping)?
 
I was going to say check your ASPI layer but if the program started to rip then that shouldn't be the problem. This one has me stumped. There is always EAC. I'm not familar too much with CDex, its been a while. I've since switched to EAC. I'm going to guess your mp3 encoder for CDex is configured wrong but your WAVs are borked also. So yea, stumped. From personal experiance, any problem I've ever had with ripping has always been the ASPI layer. I like the nero one.

Hope this helps.
 
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