mswlogo;449681 Wrote: > Nothing will make it "exactly" like the original. That is, it won't have > the same accuraterip checksum.
I believe that's incorrect. You can make an identical copy of a CD. I just ran a little test, as I don't think I've ever verified this for myself. First, I grabbed a CD off the shelf - The Beatles' Revolver. - Using EAC 0.99pb5 configured to use AccurateRip, I ripped the CD in Burst mode and encoded it during the ripping process with FLAC. I also created a non-compliant CUE sheet and saved the EAC log file of the ripping process, containing the AccurateRip results. AccurateRip results in the log showed all files accurately ripped. - Using FLAC Frontend, I decoded the FLAC files, creating a file full of WAV files. - I copied the CUE sheet to the WAV directory, then using EAC, I loaded the CUE sheet and burned a CD-R from the files. - Using EAC I ripped the CD-R copy to FLAC again, and saved the log file. Except for the ripping date/time, the two log files were identical, including the AccurateRip checksums. The above burning procedure using EAC should create a CD identical to the original if you have the drive's read and write offsets correctly set. What I _usually_ to burn a CD for my own use, where I'm not worried about producing a truly identical copy, is use Burrrn ( http://www.burrrn.net/?page_id=4 ) and burn directly from the FLAC files (well, more or less - Burrnn does the decoding of the FLAC files to WAV, burns the CD from the WAV files, then deletes the WAVs). Burrrn doesn't apply drive write offsets, though, so you don't end up with an identical copy. I verified this as well by burning a CD from the FLAC files using Burrrn, then ripping that copy. The AccurateRip results all came back with different checksums and 'not verified'. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=66779 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
