Strictly speaking, is it correct to have the "Fill up missing samples
with silence" setting turned on?

I'm not sure that I fully understand all the related details of CD
drive offsets etc. but it sounds a little to me like enabling that
setting is a bit of a "hack" to force compliance with Accurip (i.e.
ensure the size of the extracted file meets that held in the Accurip
database)?

To elaborate, say, for example, a CD drive cannot overread on the
lead-out (as seems to be the case with my CD drive) and it cannot
extract/read the last few samples on the final track, then I don't
understand the value in padding out the extracted track with blank
information.

As far as playing back the WAV file from the hard disk is concerned,
having the silence makes no musical difference. And as regards using
the WAV file to recreate a "copy" CD audio track, the "copy" would not
be accurate, as it will have the "silence" data where the original
would have had something different.

Any thoughts? As you can perhaps tell, I'm a bit confused by all of
this.

At the end of the day I'm happy to just accept that I just need to tick
that setting ;-)


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