[vlad]

I am trying to put my CD library into my new shiny iPod. On the
surface it looks easy: - start iTunes, put CD in CD-ROM, rip.

It is iTunes on Windows.

1) I have two CD readers, CD-ROM and DVD-ROM. iTunes recognizes only
on of them, the slowest one.

2) many tracks on iPod have skips in them
(fraction of the second pauses in a middle of the track). Few tracks
even have missing pieces, repeated fragments, etc.

First I thought my iPod is faulty, then I noticed that that same
defects are in tracks on PC in iTunes data files. I listened them
side by side (PC and iPod), they are identical.

So, from where skips are coming? Original CD's are in perfect order. I
assume that iTunes reads digital file from CD, converts it to MP3 in
digital domain and writes on HD.

Does anybody know how to avoid these skips?

If I rip CD tracks using WinAmp and then import them in iTunes,
everything works fine. But iTunes places these tracks in most
unexpected
places in hierarchy, making it unusable.

Thanks in advance for your help.

vlad