Rob A. Wrote: > Accurate rip only means that the extracted audio will *sound* the same > as the CD -- it doesn't guarentee that the data is a bit-for-bit match. > If you're really interested, check out sections 2-15, 2-43-4, and > especially 2-17 of http://www.cdrfaq.org/faq02.html. > This is simply untrue. I don't see anything in that link that says, well, anything whatsoever about AccurateRip. I think you misunderstand what AccurateRip is, and how it works.
> > If error correction is used, audio extracted from a CD should always > sound the same, but the data may not be "bit accurate". "Bit Accurate" > means that the long string of binary codes in your WAV files matches > exactly what's on the CD. > Absolutely correct. That's the point of AccurateRip, to give confidence that you have a "Bit Accurate" copy; or in other words, that error correction (specifically, C2 error correction) has not been used. > > If you rip a CD twice and get the same checksum, all you can prove is > that you've read the CD the same way twice. It doesn't prove that > you've made an accurate copy of the original. All is not lost, though > -- even though you may never really get the same data twice, you > shouldn't be able to hear a difference. > It gives a reasonable confidence though, and what's more, if twenty people rip a CD twenty times on twenty different CD drives, and they all submit the same checksum to AccurateRip, then it gives a very strong confidence that the copy is exact. That is the point of AccurateRip. -- clumsyoik ------------------------------------------------------------------------ clumsyoik's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1997 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19153 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
