Hello all, I wanted to update you on my experiences with ripping with a different drive in two different ways.
I used my old Plextor CDRW drive, which has been rock-solid in the past, and ripped using cdrdao with both the `--read-subchan rw' and `--read-subchan rw_raw' options. The former was not available on my other drive before, so both a change in reader and options gave me hope that I could eliminate the artifacts. After comparing the results of these two rips on a small sample of tracks, I found the "rw" version was much more reliable. For instance in one track, the "rw_raw" version produced a total of 7 persistent screen artifacts by the end of the song, while the "rw" version had 0. Other tracks show similar results, though "rw" isn't perfect and still has a few issues. Overall, the "rw" rips are much less distracting and will be fine for our use. Also note that I think even the "rw_raw" rips were slightly better than the "rw_raw" rips on the crappier DVD drive in my mythbox. Ultimately I think it would still be helpful to have a binary diffing/merging tool that can help overcome these errors. Even with a good drive in "rw" mode, the rip wasn't perfect. Consider the perfectionists out there who can't stand artifacts, or those with moderately scratched disks or crappy drives that just want to moderately reduce the errors (or to elminate that one pesky blue text on blue background error for good)... If I had time, I would write it in an afternoon, but for now I'm working on more open source projects than are good for me. thanks much, tim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Pykaraoke-discuss mailing list Pykaraoke-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pykaraoke-discuss
