I suspect it would be way easier and possibly cheaper to upgrade his PC's CD drive, assuming it isn't capable of accurate audio extraction, than to try to use an external CD player.
If I assume that the CD player has a digital output stream, most likely an optical feed, then he needs to have a audio card in his PC that can take an optical feed as an input. Then you need an application that will capture the stream, in real time, and save it to disk. The sound card may have such a utility in its software. This is a key element as the PC has to be fast enough to keep up. Most probably can do it but anything like say a virus scan can really slow things down losing data. Once you have the whole file captured then you have to manually either generate a cue sheet or split the file into individual tracks. Transcode to an appropriate format such as FLAC, as you mention. Then tag everything and then finally manually put things where you want them. As apposed to put the CD in the disk, start EAC (for example), wait for it to be done. Job finished. OK I'm exaggerating slightly I generally need to do more work in tagging or album art but essentially that is it. There is no requirement for the PC to be fast, if it has to read a block 50 times to get it right so what, it will be slower than real time but the point being it can take the time to get it right. This is where the external player falls down. Even if it is able to mult-read and apply all sorts of error correction then it still has a real-time constraint it has to have the data in the optical buffer at the right time to maintain the music flow without breaks. If it doesn't have it then you get the pops, repeats or what ever it does to fill in the missing data. Personally I don't think you could beat doing it on a PC drive (as long as it has the right facilities). -- Zaragon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Zaragon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14577 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43665 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
