EAC or any "superduper extreme" ripper really only makes a difference on discs that are not 100% readable.
What makes EAC better than many other rippers is in its ability to find and correct read errors. To be honest, you'd most likely -hear- these read errors on non-picky rippers. A burst of noise is hard to miss: the nature of a scratch on a CD makes for very obvious problems. A single bit error is unlikely in reality: you are more likely to get extended errors for several seconds and those are hard to ignore even on the cheapest equipment. (The ECC code on the disc makes single bit errors unlikely.. the problem is when there are so many bit errors that ECC fails to correct them.. the generic rippers may or may not be able to notice this or try to correct for it with multtiple reads.) So, yeah, if your discs are all pristine, use whatever you want. If you listen to each after ripping, again, use whatever you want and rerip when it sounds like poop. Its probably safe to use something with very little error detection and just -watch- it rip and see how much it complains while ripping. If it doesnt complain at all on a disc, it's almost certainly fine... if it takes a few rereads, though, it may or may not have gotten it right. It isn't like EAC or some other ripper is going to find secret bits on the disc that increase the sound quality. It isn't like there is such a thing as jitter when ripping. It is all 1's and 0's (and error correction codes which are also 1's and 0's) and nothing in between. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39485 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
