CardinalFang Wrote: > OK, can I point you at this web site that lists all the CDs with > deliberately error-laden data to try to fool computer CD drives. It is > not an incorrect assumption that CDs are not manufactured error-free > anymore but a well-documented one with several sites reporting > deliberately corrupted CDs, usually by missing out information such as > time-stamps. In the old days CDs were produced to a high quality and > you'd be right, but not now. Those CDs include deliberate uncorrectable errors, and rely on the CD player's interpolation algorithms to conceal them. So how do you plan on copying them to your hard disk? These errors aren't random, and it doesn't matter how many times you get EAC to re-read them, they'll never go away. So you have to rip using a drive (or perhaps software) which includes interpolation of uncorrectable errors - just like a CD player. Once on hard disk, you can then faithfully play a data stream complete with the error concealments - just like a CD player.
Hey, I'm not here to defend the idea of a CD player in preference to a Squeezebox - in fact I sold my CD player after getting an SB2. But some of your speculations about why a CD player may be an inferior transport to an SB appear to be based on misunderstandings, and I felt they should be clarified. -- cliveb ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18991 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
