Plextor CD writers

From: CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com <(CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com)>
Date: Thu May 4 19:14:33 2000

>To copy an audio CD is more involved, mainly because it's impossible to
>guarantee that you get exactly the right "sectors" in exactly the right
>order from the original (a consequence of the way frames are labelled in
>CD-DA format). Tools like cdparanoia solve that by reading overlapping
>sections, and doing a lot of sliding comparisons to build up an accurate
>copy (it creates a WAV file for every track). That's why simpler methods
>often produce copies that don't sound exactly the same, though some CD-ROM
>readers do a pretty good job at getting a clean audio stream, especially in
>conjuction with software like readcdda or cdda2wav.

I've only used it a few times, but "cdparanoia" is a damn good tool for
what it does. Excellent at reporting error correction levels necessary for
reading the audio CD, too.

Tim.
Received on Thu May 04 2000 - 19:14:33 BST