CD rippers

[R Kimber]

On Thu, 23 May 2013 07:04:46 -0400
Gene Heskett wrote:

> 1. cdparanoia has some switches that can make it more verbose.

It's being called fom within other gui programs.

> 
> 2. If the errors are effecting the md5sum (it only takes one bit flip to
> do that!) then either the drives lens is dirty, or, far more likely, the
> disk is scratched and cdparanoia is guessing.
> 
> 3. Lens cleaners are sold at Walmart etc.

The CDROM drive is only a couple of months old, so probably isn't that
dirty, and the CD looks perfect.

> 
> 5. Basing a good rip on the md5sum's consistency is probably being too 
> paranoid, the ear is quite capable of ignoring a flipped bit 99.9% of the 
> time.  Data disks are another, completely different horse, with all sorts 
> of error corrections built into the encoding, so they are much better 
> equipt to tolerate a flipped bit than a music disk will ever be.  We are
> so used to data being read flawlessly that we think a music disk should
> be too.  Tain't so.

Yes, I agree that one bit wouldn't make an audible difference, but I was
moved to examine the md5sum because the rip didn't sound right.

- Richard.
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Richard Kimber