Detect pops, crackles etc in imported CDs automatically?

I have 650+ CDs imported into my iTunes. I find from time to time that I will listen to a CD in iTunes I hadn't listened to in a long time and there will be skips or pops or crackles in one or more tracks. I no longer have any of my CDs - sold them back to the used music store - so I have to go buy them again and re-import them.
This is probably not possible, but is there any program that could scan my library and detect tracks that haven't correctly imported?

You are correct. I looked into this and even if I buy a CD and then rip it then lose it, let alone sell it to a used CD store, I legally cannot listen to my music on iTunes. I have to be in physical possession of the CD.
I just want to clarify that I have owned these 600+ at least once, and in a majority of cases, 2 times. I originally decided to get rid of my CDs because I don't like clutter; I just wanted to have everything on my computer digitally. So I ripped the rest of the CDs I hadn't ripped and sold them and started buying music from the iTunes. However, I decided I wanted the CDs at the highest possible quality and I am re-ripping everything as Apple Lossless. This is not an insignificant expense. I am buying CDs from the uses record shop, from BMG, form ebay, Amazon etc and slowly reripping everything. In addition, I am old enough to have originally purchased some of these recordings as albums or cassettes (a few even in 8 tracks) and so over the years have repurchased the same music in various formats (as I am doing now). I have spent and continue to spend a large amount of money on recorded music.
I just want to differentiate myself from those who have 650 CDs worth of MP3s taken from bit torrents and think that "music should be free" and never pay anything for what they have.
Finally, I spent a year studying in the UK in 1990-91 and loved it. Made it down to Brighton once on a subsequent trip and have a picture of myself and some friends on the beach. God I miss pubs and good beer and good TV...
Bryan

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Hey there lollypops21,
It sounds like you are connected to the internet otherwise, but iTunes is giving you this error message when trying to get info from the Gracenote database to retrieve your album info. I had a couple of articles I wanted to recommend you try. First this one named:
iTunes for Windows can't access the Internet if proxy settings are incorrect
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1490
You can always enter in the album information manually with this article if needed:
iTunes 11 for Windows: Edit song and CD information
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12360
Customize song and CD info
You can edit information in the Info window to make it easier to find and sort items in your library. For example, you can:
Group individual movements on a classical CD into one work by indicating the name of the work (for example, “Piano concerto in A Minor, Op. 54”) in the Grouping field.
Group songs that are part of a compilation together in your library by clicking the Info button and selecting the “Part of a compilation” checkbox.
Identify the individual artists on a tribute album in the Artist field, and type “various” in the Album Artist field.
Create your own genre category by clicking Info and typing the category in the Genre field.
Change the order in which tracks on a CD play by changing the numbers in the Track Number fields.
Create a Smart Playlist that includes only songs that are just the right speed for your workout by typing the number of beats per minute in the BPM field. For instructions, see Create a Smart Playlist.
Identify a movie as a music video (click the Options button, and choose Music Video from the Media Kind pop-up menu).
Identify an item that you imported from a CD as an audiobook, so it appears under Audiobooks instead of Music (click the Options button and choose Audiobook from the Media Kind pop-up menu). If you do this, iTunes also remembers your place in the audiobook.
Enter custom sorting criteria for an item. Select the item, choose File > Get Info, click Sorting, and enter the custom text.
iTunes retrieves CD information from the Gracenote media database. For more information, visit the Gracenote website.
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Take care,
Sterling

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Okay, can someone please give a useful answer? Thanks! I have been experiencing exactly the same problem for some time now, and it is very annoying. Furthermore, I would like to point out to Chris CA that there is absolutely nothing ambiguous about the original post.
So here is the deal. I used to be able to burn CDs with iTunes that played back fine on both my car and home stereo. After some update, and I am very sorry but I really do not remember which one, as I am just a user and not a programmer and just want something that works, which in the end Apple used to be all about, and therefore do not keep track of all the updates, CDs won't play back on my car stereo. Nothing else changed, still the same brand of CDs (even the same stack!), still the same car stereo, and still the same 2007 MBP. So by simple deduction I conclude it must be a software update. And I do not care what the exact cause is, I just want a fix!
I'd like to apologize for my tone in the above, but it is just a very annoying problem, even more so because it seems nothing is being done about it. Thanks for your answer in advance!

HT1473 When importing CDs into i-tunes should the artwork be there automatically. If not how do I get artwork to show in i-tunes and on my ipod. I had artwork with a PC but now I have a mac artwork does not appear.

When importing CDs into i-tunes should the artwork be there automatically. If not how do I get artwork to show in i-tunes and on my ipod. I had artwork with a PC but now I have a mac artwork does not appear.

I don't use iTunes's "fetch artwork", so I'm not 100% sure, but unless you are signed in to your iTunes account, artwork is not automatic. Even then, iTunes doesn't always find it.
You can copy-and-paste artwork from the inernet, either Amazon or Google. I use 300x300 pixel images.
For the future, if you have iTunes questions, you might be better off posting them in the iTunes for Mac forum, this is iTunes for Windows. In this situation, it doesn't make any difference, but next time maybe it will.

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XP instructions in the following document: How to perform disk error checking in Windows XP
Vista instructions in the following document: Check your hard disk for errors
Windows 7 instructions in the following document: How to use CHKDSK (Check Disk)
Select both Automatically fix file system errors and Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors, or use chkdsk /r (depending on which way you decide to go about doing this). You'll almost certainly have to schedule the chkdsk to run on startup. The scan should take quite a while ... if it quits after a few minutes or seconds, something's interfering with the scan.
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For some reason when I insert my cd into my computer itunes doesn't do anything. I have imported cds on another computer, so I know all the songs are supposed to pop up and I can choose which ones I want to import, but on my computer I am using now, nothing happens.

Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
Dell Computer Corp. Inspiron 1000
iTunes 7.0.2.16
CD Driver 2.0.6.1
CD Driver DLL 2.0.6.1
LowerFilters: PxHelp20 (2.0.0.0), drvmcdb (1.0.0.1), sscdbhk5 (1.0.0.1),
UpperFilters: GEARAspiWDM (2.0.6.1),
Video Driver: SiS M650\SiS Compatible VGA
IDE\DiskFUJITSUMHT2040AT_______________________0022___, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [0,0]
IDE\CdRomQSICDRW/DVD_SBW242C____________________UQ81___, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [0,0]
If you have multiple drives on the same IDE or SCSI bus, these drives may interfere with each other.
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Current user is an administrator.
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When you input the data for these CD's, do you first highlight the CD in the left hand column of iTunes and hit "Command and I" (get info) and fill in the 'Master' information like Artist, Album Name, Number of Discs, Genre etc. Then once that has been filled in you then do a "Command I" on each track filling in just the name of each track along with which track it is out of how many tracks there are on the CD. As it sounds like iTunes might be getting conflicting data and some how the information for track 1 is different for the rest of the tracks. It may be you are putting all the info in for track 1 and then just filling in the other tracks with minimal information hence the two entries. Fill in the master info first then do track by track
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