On Saturday 26 March 2005 09:17 pm, michael wrote: > It's worth noting that using --fast-toc will not read pregap or index > markers from the disc. This won't matter much for your ripped files, > but if you intend to use this as an archival backup of the original > CD, you may want to keep those. Using --read-toc without --fast-toc > should grab everything correctly, but it'll take a bit longer.
Well, I know that's what the documentation says, but I'm not entirely convinced that it's true. I've got some CDs that definitely have pregap markers that are picked up by --fast-toc. Despite what 'man cdrdao' says, I believe the difference with --fast-toc is that it simply "trusts" what the disc's actual TOC tells it without going through a verification step. Indeed, without the --fast-toc option, read-toc gets some things wrong. For example, using --fast-toc, ISRC codes are picked up correctly for each track, but without the --fast-toc option, cdrdao gives an ISRC code of all zeroes for each track. I'm more inclined to trust the results of --fast-toc given that it reads the *actual* TOC from the disc. Now this is purely conjecture on my part based on having played around with this on several different discs. I have not dug into the source code or anything, so don't just take my word for it. -- Jason Voegele Man's reach must exceed his grasp, for why else the heavens?
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