Jim Wrote:
> 1 out of 3!
>
> Before everyone switches to WAV, that's 1 out of 3 hard drives I had
> failing
>
> There is a difference. Going to the trouble/time/expense of keeping a
> lossless collection and not using EAC is like drinking Johnnie Walker
> Blue Label and mixing it with coke.
Wow, that's some bad luck with hard drives...!
On the EAC issue, I agree. If you care enough to rip to FLAC/lossless,
why not make sure you get good rips? Find out the read sample offset of
your CD drive for one, and use a ripper that goes the distance to make
sure the rip is good.
I personally use grip with cdparanoia (since I use Linux). For this
combo, the only caveat is to make sure your CD drive does not cache
audio (EAC will tell you this - I tried the drive on my wife's Windows
machine to check it out). Her Sony DVD drive does cache, but my older
DVD drive (Memorex) does not cache. I've also heard that it's good for
the drive to have "AccurateStream" (EAC tells you this too).
For cdparanoia, there is an option ("-O") that is used to specify the
read sample offset correction. I have compared tracks ripped using
this flag with ones ripped with EAC and a correct offset set for the
drive it uses, and they match, proving that this option works.
The only downside to not setting read offset correctly is that your
track boundaries will be off by a very small (in the realm of
milliseconds) amount, and you will lose that same amount of data at the
start or end of the CD. But why not get it right if you can?
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