wellington;193092 Wrote: > DAE is not an easy process. the problems in DAE are explained in a very > useful book by Ken Pohlman (Principles of Digital Audio). > I have yet to see anybody describing their ripper as professionally as > the author of EAC does. EAC implements a lot of techniques to get > ripping right. Of course it is slow. > IF and only IF you have a very good drive and a perfect CD to rip, you > might judge EAC techniques redundant. But you can never be sure of your > drive and of course of your CD. Therefore you should ALWAYS use EAC. > Personally I always use EAC. It produces exact copies and it is slow > (do you really care?) > In very rare instances (really damaged CDs) EAC cannot recover the > data. In that case I use the less precise CDex to rip with paranoia. It > sometimes work but it just makes "a" copy, surely not an exact copy. > Think of it, just having your ripper to display "copy OK" does not mean > the copy is perfect, it just means there is no error after the amount of > testing done. EAC makes more testing than others, so one could say the > "copy OK" message from EAC is the best insurance you can get. > On the other end "a" copy is better than no copy at all.
All that for free? What's the catch? ;-) -- Skunk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Skunk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2685 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34179 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
