the-ninth;404214 Wrote: > Hello Everybody, > > I am just re-ripping my music collection with dBpoweramp and am > sometimes wondering about the AccurateRip results. Sometimes there are > whole CDs reported as inaccurate and in these cases I also tried EAC > but got the same result. In these cases the confidence of the result is > low, 2 or 3. EAC then also said that I might have a different pressing > then people who previously submitted. > > So I wanted to ask if anybody here has similar experiences and what you > are doing about it (ignoring it?). > > See you, Robert > > PS: Just having another case. Six-CD-set Beethoven String Quartets. Of > the first one all tracks are inaccurate in dBpoweramp and EAC, second > and third now ripped completely accurate. That makes me wonder about > the "different pressing" theory ...
I am with Radish on this as well. As long as the rip is secure, I feel confident that the rip is accurate. I also did some reading over on the dBpowerAmp forum and had some Q&A with Spoon about it that increased my confidence that the rips are fine. >From the website, *-"The philosophy behind AccurateRip is quite simple - each time an audio track is ripped (recorded by computer) it is compared with rips from other people, this allows a confidence report to be generated. The report might say that 4 other people had exactly the same results, this would guarantee your rip was without error, or the report could say that 3 other people disagree with your rip, the likely hood is that your CD has a scratch and should be cleaned."-* The other possibility is that your pressing doesn't match, so clean the CD and look for defects. I write down the checksums, clean and check the CD for defects, and rerip it. If I get the same results, I am done. The only issue I have with AccurateRip is that it can't keep the pressing separate. It basically uses the Artist and Album as the means to track and count the submitted ripping data (max of 200). I have been buying and collecting CDs since 1983 so many of my CDs are first pressing and don't match the AccurateRip DB due to that. It is especailly true on the really popular CDs that were really big on vinyl also. Examples like The Cars, Boston, Van Halen to name a few that have had many pressing and reissues that were ripped by others before I started ripping have already reached the 200 submission mark before I ripped my original pressing so I get a secure rip only because the AccurateRip DB is based on the most popular pressing ripped the most first. Which in a few cases an older pressing just happened to get ripped a few times before a newer pressing and I get back that I am the 12th person to get an AccurateRip of that CD that is very very popular. I think it would be very hard to make it perfect and the program itself is an excellent ripping program with great results. AccurateRip just gives an extra level of confidence and you can feel good about your rips as long as they say they are secure. And if I followed what Spoon told me, reripping a CD that ripped Secure isn't going to change anything. These are just my opinions and observations, Spoon is da Man when it comes to the workings of dBpowerAmp and AccurateRip. -- iPhone *iPhone* 'Last.FM' (http://www.last.fm/user/mephone) Media Room: Transporter, VTL TL-6.5 Signature Pre-Amp, Ayre MX-R Mono's, Vandersteen Quatro, VeraStarr 6.4SE 6-channel Amp, VCC-5 Reference Center, four VSM-1 Signatures, Runco RS 900 CineWide AutoScope 2.35:1 Living Room: Duet, ADCOM GTP-870HD, Cinepro 3K6SE III Gold, Vandersteen Model 3A Signature, Two 2Wq subs, VCC-2, Two VSM-1 Kitchen: Squeezebox BOOM Bedroom: SB3, GFR-700HD, Thiel 2.3, Second Boom Home Office: SB3, NAD C370, two VSM-1 Home Gym: SB3, Parasound Vamp v.3, Thiel PowerPoint 1.2 Mobile: SB3, Audioengine A5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ iPhone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=61067 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
