Hi, After a bit of browsing around the forum there doesn't seem to be a discussion about using a digital out on a Hifi CD player as a ripping source. I'm wondering why, so if one exists please post the link.
My CD player (Mark Levinson 390S) has a digital out and the PC I use as a Slimserver has a Terratec EWX24/96 bit clean sound card with digital in. The CD outputs the audio data after jitter/error correction and when playing CDs it does a superb job. The logical conclusion is putting these two together should give the best possible ripping accuracy, the question is how to do it? And, of course, is it better using the transport of a $10,000 CD player that the software doesn't control or to use a $50 CDROM drive that software can control? So far my thoughts are to record the digital input stream to an ISO image which is mounted as a CD and then 'ripped' again to get track info. I'm not sure which tool to use but cdparanoia is a candidate, perhaps there's something which will do it all in one hit but most ripping tools expect to work on a CD drive they can control. Suggestions, especially for Linux tools, would be useful. My target format is FLAC, the server is running SUSE Linux 10.0 and the SB3 outputs digital audio to the CD player's optical digital input (yes, it has one of those). My few experiments this far have proved that ripping CDs with the CDROM drive in my PC and not taking any care results in a clearly audible reduction in quality, even ripping to WAV. But how to get the best possible results? -- Lard ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lard's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2484 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29202 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
