Jason Voegele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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.
You are correct it seems. I'd always just taken the man page at face
value. But sure enough, in practice --fast-toc does grab indexes
correctly.
> 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.
Now I've seen the zeroed ISRC from the slow read-toc, but those same
tracks show no ISRC at all when read with --fast-toc. Those tracks
that do show up with real values for ISRC seem to match with or
without --fast-toc. At least that's what I get with the discs I've
tested with.
> 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.
A few quick experiments seem to have proven you correct. :)
-michael
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