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Sudah lama saya ingin mencoba Mozilla Thunderbird lagi, khususnya untuk digunakan pada account Gmail saya.  Alasannya sederhana, saya lama-lama bosan juga menunggu waktu tunggu untuk membuka halaman web-based Gmail.

Kebetulan teman kantor ada yang menggunakan Portable Thunderbird. Aplikasi menarik ini dia gunakan untuk segala keperluan mobilitas e-mail, termasuk di dalamnya, account Gmail miliknya. Menurut sarannya, Thunderbird cocok digunakan untuk menarik e-mail dari Gmail.

Namun, sangat disayangkan… untuk alasan sekuriti, ternyata port pop3 dan smtp Gmail secara default ditutup oleh admin network kantor saya. Teman saya bisa mengakses Gmail karena memang dia minta request khusus kepada sang admin. Bisa saja sih saya merequest kepada sang admin untuk membuka port tersebut, namun saya urung untuk melakukannya dengan alasan bahwa ini merupakan proyek eksperimen saja (hanya untuk coba-coba, biasanya kalau sudah 1-2 bulan saya akan bosan dengan sendirinya).

Tadi malam, setelah pusing menyelesaikan deadline artikel (yang tiba-tiba datang bagaikan air bah), dan tidak tahu mau ngapain lagi (pulang malas, tapi belum ngantuk juga), saya iseng lagi mencoba koneksi Gmail lewat Thunderbird. Saya teringat teknologi SSH tunneling yang dulu sempat saya pelajari dan coba-coba sebentar.

Oke, googling sedikit, riset sedikit, ngoprek-ngoprek sedikit, salah-salah...banyak. Akhirnya! Saya berhasil melakukan koneksi ke Gmail melalui tunneling via SSH. Begini cara sederhananya menurut pengalaman saya:
Okay, last week I bought Souljah’s 2007 album, “Bersamamu” and the brand new one from Straightout, “Forsaken upon Nemesis”. Like any of my CD collections, the first thing I did after listen to the full album was to make a backup of the album in an MP3 format that I am entitled to using Exact Audio Copy.

Usually the steps consist of this:
  1. Open Exact Audio Copy
  2. Insert the CD in the Drive
  3. Get the CD database from freedb
  4. If freedb doesn’t find any information of the album, then I manually put the information myself
  5. Extract and compressed it using EAC.

However, a couple of days before, I’ve change my optical drive from Pioneer to a brand new BenQ DVD DC DW1800. Now, when I try to extract the CD, it behaves oddly. It reports a “Timing Problem” in the ripping process. The resulted MP3 format were defected and the conversion phase is broke.

After googling, I found out that the culprit was the “Burst” mode in EAC. My drive isn’t compatible with that mode. Therefore I have to use the Secure Mode (EAC->Drive Options, choose the Secure Modes)

Then I try it again, and a new error called “Sync Problem” comes. Dohh! What’s wrong with you BenQ? So I search the vast world of Internet once again (a.k.a googling).  Now, I learned that I have to use the Offset Correction in the Compression Option (EAC->Compression Options, choose the Offset Tab, then enable the “Use Offset Correction” and use the default number for the Sample Offset). And voila! My ritual ripping process was successful as usual.

So there are the caveats to anyone using a BenQ DVD Writer for ripping CD Audio using Exact Audio Copy. I don’t know if it’s just me or anybody that using that combination has the same problem as I did. Well anyway, that was my workaround to that problem, hope it helps other who has the same issue.

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