Certain CDs will not play on itunes

For some reason, certain Cds, even brand new ones that work fine on a cd player, have incredibly poor playback on my itunes and when i sync them to my ipod. playback on these Cds is very grainy and scratchy, but strangely the majority of Cds are fine. I haven't found anyone with the same problem but i have tried to fix it by changing quicktime audio settings to 192 khz rate and 24 bit size, which hasn't helped. Is there any simple way to solve this issue? All help appreciated.

Mcvities wrote:
ive tried with windows media player on high quality, mp3 format, wma format etc and nothing seems to work; it won't even play the CD normally.
Then the problem seems to be bigger than iTunes, and since you noted before that "the majority of Cds are fine" I am wondering if there is something about the CDs that is causing a problem for any program that tries to rip them.
Not sure if you have time for one more experiment, but if you have access to a friend's computer, see if they rip there.

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