I'm stumped. I have a hard time getting away from the mono/stereo theory, though.
I re-encoded both versions of both tracks and came up with exactly the same compression ratios that you see. I viewed the WAV forms in EAC (Tools.. Process WAV..) and they look identical. None of them appear highly compressed, nor do they reach 100% peak. Comparing the WAV files byte for byte, they're not identical, but that could be explained in a number of ways. They could be different pressings, meaning that disk offsets aren't identical, or one or the other CD drive's offset setting could be wrong in EAC. I even ran ReplayGain on them and came up with identical numerical values for each pair of files. Do you have the EAC logs for your rips and theirs? Post them in a zip file, if so. Do you use AccurateRip in EAC and do your logs say whether or not your rips matches the AR database? Do you have another computer on which you could rip the same CDs, or another CD drive? I'm wondering if you may be getting only one channel or (I don't know how) a mono mix from the CD drive. -- JJZolx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91402 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
