CD issue with my Star

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I recently bought a CD of the Art Tatum - Ben Webster Quartet, on State of Art 81257. It’s a “24-bit remastered Limited Edition”, but my Star will not recognise it, so it’s unplayable.

My Panasonic bluray player plays it ok, and I don’t have another handy CD player to try it on.

Can anyone tell me if there’s something I can do to be able to listen to it, please? If I can listen to it once then I can rip it to my WD HDD drive. I usually use ripped CD to listen to, using my headphones, occasionally popping the CD in.

Thanks.

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It’s probably a “non standard” CD.

Your best bet is to rip it on your WD drive and use that rip for playback.

Some CD’s simply are not to “red book” standard.

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Sounds like it’s an audio DVD rather than a CD if is 24 bit and plays on your Bluray. The Bluray player should display the disc type.

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As above rip it on. Computer and add it to your music store manuallly

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24 bit remastered usually means that the remastering was done at 24 bit and then downsampled to 16 bit for the CD release. This is commonplace in high quality classical musical remastering of epic performances from 40 or 50 years ago.

I wonder whether the CD is actually faulty.

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The CD may be a poor pressing that some drives can’t read properly - becoming more common these days sadly. If you can rip it on a computer using EAC or DBpoweramp or something similar then you could do as I do and rip it to either FLAC or WAV, place it in a suitable album folder and then treat it like a downloaded file and place it on a USB thumb drive which you can then connect to the Star.

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Might be worth just giving it a gentle wipe with soapy water on the playing side, Could be some residue of oil from the pressing on it.
Dry with horizontal strokes not round and round

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I’ve no idea why it won’t play, but as a result of your post I’ve discovered a great album. I listened to it last night on Qobuz. Many thanks.

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Many thanks for your help, everyone, there’s no info printed in the centre of the disc, and it reinforces what I suspected, and at least I don’t need to fiddle with the Star. I noticed an option on the Panasonic to copy it, so will try that, but as I have a digital connection to the Star I can listen that way, rather than just the Star.

I will explore ripping from a laptop, too, but not till after Christmas when the house returns to normal.

And you’re very welcome, HH, I also am discovering some great music in this style of jazz, starting with Ben Webster playing on Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me backing Ella, so lots to do.

Have a Happy Christmas, everyone, mind how you go.

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