Another comment regarding CD vs digital download: With a CD, the problem of reading the data accurately can be a big problem. With digital downloads, this problem is eliminated. CDs were designed to operate in the enviroment of digital audio, where occasional data errors can be fairly well conceiled. Digital downloads are a technology built upon computer data, where even a single erroneous bit can cause disaster, so one can be confident that the downloading process will not introduce any data errors.
When CD technology was extended to produce CDROM technology, additional error correction and block addressing were added to bring the CD's data reliability and repeatability up to the much higher level required for computer data. Redbook CDs do not have this additional error correction information, and thus it's harder to get a correct read from a CD than a CDROM. -- Timothy Stockman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Timothy Stockman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8867 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41668 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
