In Reply to: If noise corrupted rips... posted by mlsstl on June 11, 2016 at 17:50:36:
"...during the process of copying a digital file off a CD onto a computer drive, no computer program could ever be installed. The only time you get a bad rip is when the CD is defective or damaged, or the CD drive isn't working correctly. Neither of those situations are due to noise."
This is technically incorrect. Computer files have three levels of Reed Solomon error correction on them when burned to a CD-R. Audio files, such as you rip, have only two layers of RS error correction and are much less reliable. It is quite common for there to be the occasional error on a rip, and multiple errors if the disk is damaged in some way. Usually, good ripping software, such as DBPoweramp, correct these errors, but sometimes (a few percent of disks) this proves impossible.
If I were to rip more than a few dozen CDs, I would not use a laptop CD drive, because these are expensive to replace. I would use an internal drive with a tower machine or an external USB drive. (If you are not comfortable working with the internals of a PC, then go with an external drive.) On my Acer tower, swapping the CD drive took less then 10 minutes and required no tools. I had to do this, because the old drive failed after doing many rips.
Tony Lauck
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- RE: If noise corrupted rips... - Tony Lauck 06/12/1613:03:43 06/12/16 (1)
- RE: If noise corrupted rips... - mlsstl 14:23:23 06/12/16 (0)