jeffluckett;148113 Wrote: > I have had disks I couldn't rip with FLAC for sure ... but I've never > had EAC produce an audibly flawed file.
On heavily damaged discs, I have. If the data isn't readable anymore, EAC can't do anything about it. It tries mightily, but once you get enough read errors in a row, you will have an audible drop-out. The worst type of defect is caused by a CD that touched the drive platen while spinning and acquired an axial scratch, i.e. one that follows the circular contour of the disc. This renders a lot of data unreadable and you stand a very good chance of getting a dropout. This is worse than a radial scratch (one going from the centre out), even a deep one. You will get re-reads but only the worst radial scratches will produce dropouts. The bad news is, those discs rip very slowly because there's a bit of damage to try to read through on every rotation. At any rate, if EAC can't do it, nothing else can, and at least EAC tries to recover from stuff like this. In light-to-moderate damage situations, EAC will succeed where others won't if it gets what it needs by re-reading. The good news is, you can repair this damage with a CD repair kit. It may take more than one go at it, and if you use a manual kit like I do, your wrists and arms will beg for mercy, but the only damage you can't repair is a crack or reflective layer damage. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=28829 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
