On 11/01/2011 11:00 PM, Rocky Bernstein wrote: > I had a vague and second-hand understanding that cdparanoia had a way to > figure out from the drive when it is better and totally burning of > paranoia. It is possible that cued or EAC compares rips with and without > paranoia.
Modern drives don't jitter. So it is reasonable to turn off jitter correction. I do not recall if you can turn off jitter correction with the paranoia library (of course you can do anything with programmatic changes.) I have an uneasy recollection that paranoia sometimes makes other types of corrections that are unnecessary, although jitter is the most common. > Do I have it correct that things that are uniformly close to 0000 or ffff > are both silence because it what is looked for is lots of *changes* in > amplitude. (If this is correct, would any repeated 16-bit value also be > silence? For example 5555, 5555, or even 1234 1234?) Yes. I like to think of PCM data with a physical model. Think of the PCM data as air pressure measurements, since what we hear is variations in this. I recall seeing a good example of this. I think it was in libsndfile. It has a sample program that makes a musical note by using the sine or cosine function. Rob
