cliveb Wrote: > Disagreement over opinions is one thing, disagreement over facts is > another. If I were to disagree that 2+2=4, I'd be wrong.
Actually, 2+2=0 in base 4, for all you 4-bit ALU computing fans from the 1970's Come at things from a different angle and "facts" can be subtly changed. CDs are Red Book, yes, computer drives are Yellow book, yes. How they can and do interact isn't fully defined as each drive can implement different firmware and use different approaches to physically reading disks even if the definition of the data is the same. > When you put an audio CD into a data drive, it doesn't suddenly acquire > an extra level of error correction capability: the redundant data > simply doesn't exist, and information cannot be invented out of thin > air. Red book CDs cannot be read as yellow book ones. I don't think I clained it did suddenly acquire extra data from thin air. All I have supposed all along is that because a yellow book drive is under computer control it can attempt to read the Red Book data in different ways, for example by varying spin speed and repeated attempts to read the red book data. And I'm not talking about deliberately corrupted disks, just worn and less than perfect new ones. I am merely thinking out loud and very much wishing that I hadn't started. When I have discussed random ideas with bright people before on groups like this, they usually respond with "no, that doesn't work, but this might". I was hoping for the same so that we could collectively come up with some genuine ideas for a better SB/ripping experience. I am genuinely sorry if I have inflamed people by not giving up on trying to find out if we are limited by the technology we have to hand. -- CardinalFang ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CardinalFang's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=962 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18991 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
