> 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.
Something else I'll have to try. >> 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. You're right -- my earlier explanation was incorrect. I've been experimenting with making WAV files and confirmed this. Blake
