[LAU] CD ripping

[Barney Holmes]

This site explains much of the technicalities -
http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/ ... and the software "cdparanoia" was
created to address much of the angst over high quality cd extractions.

On Wed, May 22, 2013 11:50 pm, R Kimber wrote:
> On Thu, 23 May 2013 00:44:31 +0200
> Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2013-05-22 at 23:03 +0100, R Kimber wrote:
>> > If I rip the same CD on two different occasions, would I be right to
>> > expect the two sets of tracks to have the same md5sum, or is ripping
>> > not that precise?
>>
>> A digital copy, is a digital copy, is a digital copy. They can fail, but
>> usually they don't fail. It's more likely that you e.g. ripped one CD
>> one-to-one and for another CD you perhaps automagically add pauses
>> between the tracks.
>
> Sorry, I don't understand.  I'm just running the same ripper (rubyripper)
> on the same CD, in the same CDROM drive, on the same PC, on different
> occasions.  The process is reported as completing successfully, but I get
> different md5sums.
>
> - Richard.
> --
> Richard Kimber
>
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