cliveb;285579 Wrote: > Sean and Pat have posted replies with respect to one use of the term > "jitter" - timing inaccuracies. And as Sean says, it is completely > irrelevant during CD ripping. > > Unfortunately there is another use of the term "jitter", and this > refers to the inability of older CDROM drives to accurately position > within the data stream of an audio CD. (Quite why the same term was > used for this is a mystery to me - the word was already is widespread > use within the digital audio community, so it should have been obvious > that it would cause confusion). In this scenario, the term "jitter > correction" is a strategy used by rippers whereby blocks are read in an > overlapped manner, and the software matches up the boundaries in an > attempt to compensate for the inaccurate positioning. > > However, the vast majority of modern CDROM drives do not have this > positioning problem, so there is no need for jitter correction. Try > ripping with it switched off. If your drive does require it, you'll > soon know - there will be obvious clicks and pops in your rips.
Thanks for the input cliveb, your answer makes sense to me. I have tried it without jitter correction and can't hear any difference. It certainly is faster without it. Regards, klysengr -- klysengr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ klysengr's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16253 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=45554 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
