Ripping with AccurateRip

Before ripping a CD give it a light clean before ripping, it helps. If AccurateRip recognizes a CD as being in its database it can offer a report at the end of ripping, as an example:

This report tells us that track 3 was not in the database (perhaps not ripped by the person(s) submitting the disc, perhaps the submitted results conflicted - more on that later), tracks 1 and 2 were Accurately Ripped with a confidence of 3 - this means 3 other people have ripped those tracks and got the exact same result, with a matching Confidence of 2 or more you can be 100% sure that your CD Rip is identical to a perfect rip!

The numbers in the [ ] are a CRC results for ripping, you can ignore those. Say things were not so good, if for example track 2 of your CD had a bad scratch then it would have said it was not accurately ripped (same confidence of 3), if the confidence level was 2 or 3, or higher then you can be fairly certain that your rip has the error, but if the confidence was only 1 then you cannot be sure if it was your Rip or the other guys Rip that had the error.

If a CD returns inaccurate results for all the tracks, then either your CD or the submitter(s) have lots of scratches, or a more likely reason is the pressing of the CD is different.

Your results will only appear in the database after you submit them.