pipetman;319092 Wrote: > > But on the other hand in many guides for EAC it's used and in dbP it > seems to be an important part of the whole process. So which one to > follow? >
It may be important for ripping quickly, but is not needed to get an accurate rip. If you set EAC to ignore the drive's c2 reporting it will read every sector twice and compare the data,and then re-read any sectors that don't match. The Wiki here recommends not checking the box, which is correct if you want accurate results regardless of the drive used. > > Likewise, the SqueezeboxWiki recommends to uncheck "Filling missing > offset samples with silence". Initially I did uncheck this option, but > always ended up with inaccurate rips (using various different CD > drives). Only when I checked this option did I get accurate rips (with > "no errors occured" at the end). But why would this have an impact on > the accuracy of the rip? To get 'no errors occured' you need to have only one of 'fill missing samples' OR 'overread into lead-in' checked. If your drive can overread you should check 'overread', and if not you should check 'fill samples', but not both. > > Also, when a CD is not in the AccurateRip database (and I assume most > of mine will not be), it's hard to be sure, that a rip was really error > free. dbPoweramp offers the UltraSecure feature, where it reads multiple > times over the same track etc. Is EAC's secure method equally good in > offering a good likelihood of an error-free rip? > Yes, it's equally good. If you don't have c2 checked, and have the 'drive caches data' box checked, it will read every sector in "UltraSecure" mode and report errors where the CRC data doesn't match. You should also use 'test and copy' and compare the CRC results yourself after the rip so you can re-rip any tracks that don't match. -- Skunk http://www.last.fm/user/TheSkunk/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Skunk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2685 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49768 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
