[Big Mac]

I have found that small but significant portion of my iTunes songs have audible encoding errors. I imagine my iBook is to blame, since that was my iTunes machine until I got my DP 2.0. It's so annoying to hear little static blips that I'm considering making a list of the impaired songs, followed by a time consuming recode. Anyone else experiencing the same type of annoyance?

[SpaceMonkey]

Do you encode with iTunes' error correction turned on?

Usually when I've double-checked, any faint "blips" that I thought I heard have actually turned out to be present on the original CD. That, or figments of my imagination/cases of me listening too intently and picking out something that sounds unusual on its own, but really isn't.

My copy of the Beastie Boys' "License to Ill" has routinely gotten mangled in rips, though. At least one of the encoded tracks will usually have period of loud, stuttering beeps. I guess it's just a bad pressing or something, because the disc itself is completely clean and scratch-free.

[Big Mac]

I don't think I ripped with error correction unless I knew I was having an issue - that is a good point. And you're also on to something when you speculate that some of these errant sounds may actually be on the source. The strange thing is, I seem to pick up more audio errors with the few newer, newly bought CDs I have than with my older CDs, many of which were purchased used.