ncarver;693616 Wrote: > I don't understand "history of the content." By that you mean which one > came first, etc.? > > So let's be more precise and say we have two bit-identical audio/video > files stored within the same physical filesystem (i.e., same partition) > on some type of storage device on a computer. You really want to claim > that it is absolutely impossible for there to be any differences > between the two files that could lead to playback differences on that > computer? > > Really?? > > I would suggest that you might want to think a bit harder, or perhaps > study how large files actually get stored in filesystems. Hint: ever > had to defragment a filesystem? Even if two files are bit-identical, > they may not be stored in exactly the same way in the filesystem. One > may be nearly contiguous, while the other may be scattered among a set > of relatively small blocks. > > Certainly it would be possible to store a sequence of copies of a file > in a filesystem so that the successive copies are increasingly > fragmented, and this fragmentation could potentially cause increasing > playback problems in the copies based on their generation. I myself > have absolutely encountered situations where some multimedia files > played fine while others--created later--did not, precisely because the > filesystem (NTFS) was becoming increasingly fragmented. Defragmenting > the filesystem fixed the problems (though the machine was unusable for > a couple of hours!). > > While I too doubt TAS' claims--and the mere fact of some files being > "copies" of others is irrelevant--it is definitely NOT IMPOSSIBLE that > one might experience increasing playback issues with successive copies > made on a fragmented filesystem. While I think it UNLIKELY that the > scenario I laid out is what happened to TAS, rebutting their claims was > worthy of a bit more than simply sniggering at their stupidity and > calling them names.
Have you actually read this thread? Please do so before making any more comments of this ilk, because this ground has already been covered. I will cover at least part of it again briefly. The positions of the file on disc are entirely independent of which program was used to rip them. The state of the filesystem, which filesystem is in use, the fullness of the hard drive, the fragmentation of the hard drive, and which rip occurred first will all have more influence on all of these things than which program is used to rip the files. On top of that, simply doing a "mv file newlocation" will completely change all of this. What is at issue is whether two identical rips ripped by different programs will sound different _based on the program that was used to rip them_. This claim is, in fact, utterly foolish, has already been hashed out a fair amount in this thread, and really should be put to bed. Please read the rest of this thread before continuing down this path. -- totoro sb touch -> classdaudio sds-450 -> audio physic tempo 4 + rel storm 3 & rythmik f12se ------------------------------------------------------------------------ totoro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5935 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93549 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
