On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 12:37 -0700, Munge wrote: > I've got a hifi CD player with which I am happy. It doesn't > retry 28 times and then delivers the sound, it gives me great sound at > once. What is so different with the PC CD drive?
Red Book audio (normal audio CD specs) is quite different than CD-ROM (computer data) specs. Nearly nothing in common. The RedBook spec specifically says what a player is supposed to do when it gets an error that it can't recover. This is after a lot of clever encoding and error correction is done. The players basically "improvise" when they can't recover. Which is what normal CD reading programs do on computers as well. Now, in reality, the hifi CD player market is tiny or smaller, and the computer CD/DVD market is everything. So nearly all transports used, even in mega dollar audiophile CD players are computer drives. Try a different PC. Or a different drive. Or both. Or try a different OS in your computer. EAC is advertised as being very anal about getting exactly what is on you CD. You don't have to use it, there are other tools, just not so anal. There are switches to tell EAC to lighten up if you want. To really, really know that you have the correct bits, you would have to have at least three separate CDs, and separate computer/CD combos, then extract it three times and use a computer "voting" scheme to tell which is right. Sometimes three is not enough, so you can use five sets, etc. The Nasa Space Shuttles use redundant computers this way. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
