clumsyoik Wrote: > > The audio output stream has no embedded CRC. An audio CD uses CIRC (not > CRC) internally, which is essentially a checksum used for error > detection and correction. This is the key point. The firmware inside > the CDROM will know about the error, but it doesn't necessarily tell > you about it.
CIRC. My apologies: You mean this?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed-Solomon_error_correction Read that and come back and tell me that you can't get a bit perfect stream from a CD player. I appreciate that there may be firmware that chooses not to report errors, but which computer drives do you know which don't report errors? EAC itself reports the errors the drive has flagged. I'm sure there are some dodgy old CD readers out there, but I don't have one of them. When I rip with WMP, it is easy to spot when it has come across an error... the only way it can know is through what the CD player tells it as it reads the stream. Your comment about checksums is fair enough. What you're saying is that the checksum is your guarantee that you ripped the same bits as someone else, and you're right to point out that, even if to me the rip went without a hitch, a checksum is a rock solid guarantee. -- andy b ------------------------------------------------------------------------ andy b's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1934 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=16867 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
