maggior;530809 Wrote: > I don't think it's about having golden ears, but about having confidence > that the rip was accurate. I haven't used CD Paranoia, but I have used > AccurateRip with both EAC and dbPowerAmp. AccurateRip compares your > rip against a database containing information about other people's rips > of the same CD.
Exactly. No difference in individual rip quality, just better overall QA. If something _does_ go wrong, it's another tool that can help you detect the problem. Without AccurteRip, and without ripping logs that can be examined after a rip, you're pretty much flying blind. AccurateRip has another important use, too, which is best employed by dbpoweramp - it allows you rip first in burst mode, which can be lightning fast. If the AccurateRip results indicate that the rip is good, you're done. If not, then secure mode ripping, where multiple rips of each disk sector are compared, is the fall back and next best thing, but much slower. So it's also a productivity tool that can greatly speed up the ripping of your library. dbpoweramp automates the process and will try burst mode first, then fall back to secure mode if there's no match in the database. With EAC it's a manual process. You can rip first in burst mode, but you have to look at the rip log yourself and then change the drive options and rip the CD a second time in secure mode if necessary. It's still faster than using secure mode all the time. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76870 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
