I finally dug a bit deeper, and did an octal dump of the internal reader aif and the external reader aif, and like you say even thought the filesizes are identical, inside the bytes are different. So there are differences in the internal music information. I'm a believer !
Using gzip compress uncompress gives expected results - you get back to what you put in, which does not occur for ALAC<->AIF Here are my examples (external= external drive, internal=internal drive reading same AIF track, od=Octal dump of that file) Sleepy-G5:~/Size_test barry$ ls -l total 263776 -rw-r--r-- 1 barry barry 12058704 Oct 27 17:16 external_direct_cp -rw-r--r-- 1 barry barry 55461432 Oct 27 17:19 external_direct_cp.od -rw-r--r-- 1 barry barry 12058704 Oct 27 17:18 internal_direct_cp -rw-r--r-- 1 barry barry 55462098 Oct 27 17:19 internal_direct_cp.od Sleepy-G5:~/Size_test barry$ gzip *cp Sleepy-G5:~/Size_test barry$ ls -l total 252624 -rw-r--r-- 1 barry barry 9207523 Oct 27 17:16 external_direct_cp.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 barry barry 55461432 Oct 27 17:19 external_direct_cp.od -rw-r--r-- 1 barry barry 9207649 Oct 27 17:18 internal_direct_cp.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 barry barry 55462098 Oct 27 17:19 internal_direct_cp.od Sleepy-G5:~/Size_test barry$ gunzip *gz Sleepy-G5:~/Size_test barry$ ls -l total 263776 -rw-r--r-- 1 barry barry 12058704 Oct 27 17:16 external_direct_cp -rw-r--r-- 1 barry barry 55461432 Oct 27 17:19 external_direct_cp.od -rw-r--r-- 1 barry barry 12058704 Oct 27 17:18 internal_direct_cp -rw-r--r-- 1 barry barry 55462098 Oct 27 17:19 internal_direct_cp.od Sleepy-G5:~/Size_test barry$ od external_direct_cp > external_direct_cp_after_gzip Sleepy-G5:~/Size_test barry$ ls -l total 372104 -rw-r--r-- 1 barry barry 12058704 Oct 27 17:16 external_direct_cp -rw-r--r-- 1 barry barry 55461432 Oct 27 17:19 external_direct_cp.od -rw-r--r-- 1 barry barry 55461432 Oct 27 17:58 external_direct_cp_after_gzip -rw-r--r-- 1 barry barry 12058704 Oct 27 17:18 internal_direct_cp -rw-r--r-- 1 barry barry 55462098 Oct 27 17:19 internal_direct_cp.od Sleepy-G5:~/Size_test barry$ diff external_direct_cp.od external_direct_cp_after_gzip Sleepy-G5:~/Size_test barry$ -- basmac ------------------------------------------------------------------------ basmac's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13657 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39564 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
