CardinalFang;317030 Wrote: > Nope, RedBook does indeed contain error correction - and iTunes has an > option to use it. > > This is from a HP CDROM technical paper, but there are plenty of other > references: > > "Because the CD-ROM disk has a very high bit density, it has an > inherent error rate of [10.sup.-5] to [10.sup.-6] errors per bit. The > red book standard, which has become International Electrotechnical > Commission (IEC) standard 908, specifies the CD audio media format and > provides a parity and error correction scheme that reduces the error > rate to 10-11 to [10.sup.-12] errors per bit. All CD manufacturers > provide this level of error protection." > > My point is that errors can be corrected by any ripper if they're not > too bad, it's only when they are bad enough to need concealment that > the rippers that can go back and re-read or interpolate have an > advantage. I just believe that most CD aren't that badly damaged. They > all have errors, but most are corrected.
Bottom line is this, would you want to spend the time to rip 500 CDs and possibly have errors in the data but really have no way to know until you listen to each and every track. Or use a proper program and rip 500 CDs and know that you have no errors in the data. -- m1abrams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ m1abrams's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=850 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49492 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
