hellesangel;317936 Wrote: > Many thanks, I'll give that a try but I'm not sure it's what I require > as the flaws of the ripped version aren't as you describe. What > appears to be the problem is a general lack of detail across the entire > CD. > > The audio produced by the Squeezebox 3 is like the audio the CD player > makes but with the speakers wrapped in blankets - It's muddled, dull > and lifeless. I know the Squeezebox hardware isn't at fault as other > ripped files, ripped by friends using other methods, are much closer to > their originals, it's a problem with my rips. The most likely source is > the sometimes 10x ripping speed, and I'd like to limit Grip to a max 2x > speed as an experiment. > > I know enough about reading CDs to know I'm confused about promises > made by various bits of software, but my ears are good enough to tell > me that my rips are rubbish and can be improved.
This doesn't make sense, bad rips aren't that specific. A bad rip will have bit errors - enough of these will cause a pop or a dropout, but it's simply not possible to influence the audio so subtly that it affects detail. That sort of error would have to be purposefully encoded into the CD or generated by the playback chain. Bit errors are random and affect the entire audio spectrum, errors affecting detail (say, one part of the audio spectrum) are not random. Is Grip set to normalize or something? Is the SB set for volume adjustment? Try EAC under wine with AccurateRip. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47166 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
