[LAU] CD ripping

R Kimber richardkimber at btinternet.com
Wed May 22 22:50:51 UTC 2013


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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