David Vincent wrote: > to put my mind at ease, please define "better" than the original. I did - but I don't think it made it to the server yet :)
Ignoring the massive compilation cds (and the sad fact that most of the ready-to-play cds will be taken *from* mp3 format) It is certainly possible to use an older cdrom drive to "rip" the audio as a clean .wav file, then reburn without any encoding loss - but without the software protection, deliberate errors, and possibly with "value added" features such as lyrics, discography and so forth added either to the subtrack data or to a second "pc" session. > by "better" do you may mean more portable, as in I can now put several > albums on a single CDR and play that in a laptop etc. for more hours > of music from a single CD form factor. or create a compilation album - many people complain that albums are basically two good tracks and ten that will never make it into the charts as singles - assuming you get as many as 12. > exactly, there is nothing stopping me from using my discman, plugging > the audio jack into the back of my pc and doing a good old fashioned > dub of the disc. sure it is slow, but since these copy "protected" > cds will play on standard equipment the only real degradation of the > sound would be from the analog cable and some (likely) minor noise > from the pc's internal components. It was possible to make high-quality audio-audio copies in the old analog copying days. odd that so many were of such terrible quality isn't it? that is because decent audio equipment is expensive, but a tape-to-tape "ghetto blaster" is both cheap and easily replaced if confiscated. For most "car boot sale" pirates, arrest and confiscation weren't an occupational hazard, they were an expected and factored-in cost of the process. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
