pfarrell;482607 Wrote: > In practice, the ratings were marketing hope, at best what could be > seen > in a lab under optimal conditions. So take the ratings with a large > grain of salt. I forget what speed CAV (Constant Angular Velocity) and CLV (Constant Linear Velocity) started to be thrown about by CD-ROm manufacturers, but i think it was at about 12x and over. The top transfer rates were only for the outer most section of the disk as it was travelling fastest. Drives usually have "24x Max" or something similar to indicate that you would only get that kind of speeds in certain circumstances.
Add to that those speeds were only ever for reading data, not for ripping audio, these are very different functions for an optical drive. Video data on a DVD, HD-DVD or BluRay are just files on a data disk. Audio on a CD is completely different, this is why you have to rip it as opposed to just copying some files off the disk. Ripping at high speed is a lot harder for a drive to do, the Audio-CD was never designed to make this easy, it was just designed to play 16/44.1 PCM audio. Anything else you can do with an actual CD has been tacked on well after audio CDs were released. -- funkstar my collection: *1*x squeezebox radio *1*x squeezebox touch *1*x squeezebox boom *2*x controller, *1*x receiver *2*x sb3 (sliver/black), *1*x sb2 wired (silver) *1*x sb (black), *1*x slimp3 (with rear shield) interested in any others if you have them! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ funkstar's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2335 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71067 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
