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Scharping - 1.0

Noise and speed reduction for Mac disc drives.

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This Version:	(5.0)
Current Version:	1.0
Release Date:	2009-01-24
License:	Freeware
Downloads (this version):	905
Downloads (all versions):	905

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Product Description:

Scharping makes listening to your favorite Audio-CDs on your Mac more fun. It slows down the speed of the CDdrive, thereby archiving a tremendous reduction of the drive's noise.

Scharping is a small Mac OS X program running in the background waiting for an Audio-CD to be inserted. As soon as this happens, a small dialog gets displayed requesting the desired speed of the drive. At the moment the playback of the CD begins Scharping instantly reduces the speed of the CD-Drive so that almost all of the drive's noise gets eliminated.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC

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Works well! - Version: 1.0, 1/31/2009 06:00AM PST

rifty000

The documentation says that this product works only with iTunes and hasn't been tested on external drives. I have a fairly noisy external drive and I opened a CD using QuickTime Player, and was pleased to hear that Scharping worked with both that CD player and with QuickTime Player. It also works with Flock (the browser) so I imagine it works with others.

It certainly keeps the drive quiet - it's like playing a CD using the internal drive, only much quieter. I could barely hear the drive at all.