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  1. Try this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative · on Copy-Protected CD's From '89 and '96?

    Copy the tracks to your hard drive with Exact Audio Copy, then rip the .wav files.

  2. Re:Trading copyrighted material is wrong. by koekepeer · · Score: 1 · on EFF To Defend Music Swapping Service MusicCity

    the loss occurs when copies of copies etc are made, he states. the software you mention, just doublechecks the data read to eliminate read errors, caused by the drive.

    A CD always has a few errors, and copies of copies of copies will accumulate these errors. With the software you mention, this process will be a slower one, but data loss will occur regardless.

    Anyway, this is *way* off-topic, let's close it.

    Regards,

    Meneer de Koekepeer

  3. Re:Trading copyrighted material is wrong. by ncc74656 · · Score: 2 · on EFF To Defend Music Swapping Service MusicCity
    You can burn a perfect copy of a CD for your friend. Your friend can burn a perfect copy for his/her friend. And so on and so forth.

    In this case, there will be some quality loss over time, but it's minimal.

    Um...if it's a perfect copy, where does the loss occur? If you're using something decent to rip your CDs and it makes a perfect copy every time (no unrecoverable damage to any of the CDs in the chain), then by definition there is no loss and the thousandth CD ought to be identical to the first (assuming that all of the tracks are copied in the original order). If your ripping software isn't so hot, it could introduce errors...but then we're no longer dealing with a perfect copy.
  4. Re:Heard on the radio tonite.... by ncc74656 · · Score: 2 · on Slashback: Drives, Errors, Copyright
    Bah, CloneCD will do let you make copies without a hitch.
    I've run across one CD (the newest one from Staind) that CloneCD didn't like. EAC, however, ripped it with no problem. It'll rip to WAV (uncompressed or compressed with your choice of codec) or MP3 (it can use the LAME DLL or any command-line MP3 encoder). EAC combined with LAME kicks ass...the best ripper and the best encoder.

    (I can't say that it'll work for everything, though...that's the only CD I've run across yet that threatened to be unrippable.)

  5. MPEGplus by weeeeeww · · Score: 4, Informative · on What Sounds Better, MP3 or Ogg?
    You should look into alternatives to those two. MPEGplus (*.mpc; *.mp+) is a variable bit rate (VBR) codec that gives much higher sound quality than MP3 at equivalent bit rates. I used it in conjunction with Exact Audio Copy (EAC - the *best* CD ripping software out there), and was quite pleased with the results. Supposedly, if you use the "-insane" parameter on the encoder, it's completely indistinguishable from the original, with average bit rate of around 230 kbps. I didn't test this, but here is a link to a simple comparison, and here is a more detailed one. MPEGplus' homepage has a pretty detailed description of how it works. Unfortunately it doesn't sound very good at low bit rates (but at 170 kpbs it sounds better than high (192-256+ kbps) bit rate MP3s), but hey, what's that 100 GB drive for?

    Of course, with a drive that size, you could go all-out and use Monkey's Audio, lossless audio compression (you can decode to get *exactly* the same WAV file that was encoded. Compression ratio of only 2:1 or so, but again...what's the 100 GB drive for?!! Get on Google and search around for some comparisons, and make an educated choice.

  6. Re:Millennium vs XP...better or sucky? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on World's First XP System Sold

    Well, as to the mp3-sitation you describe, as long as you use 3rd-party tools like EAC and LAME, everything should work as it always does (ie, flawlessly.)

  7. Re:Bleeding edge compatibility by Joe+Hardy+(_yoda) · · Score: 1 · on MP3Pro Released

    Exact Audio Copy (http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/) is the best ripper for Windows I've seen yet. Fast, accurate (lots of features for error detection and removal) and free (though not GNU unfortunately). CDDB support as well (though it would be nice if FreeDB support was implemented).

  8. Re:Simple solution... by f97hs · · Score: 1 · on Interesting Way To Protest Napster
    Unfortunately, quite often CDs are damaged enough for the error correcting code not being capable of fixing it (you know, there is way less error correction code in audio mode). When in audio mode, most readers handle this kind of error not by returning READ_ERROR, but by returning generated sound data that hides the error (ie does not sound like a scratch). This might make the md5 database of each song quite populated.

    If in windows, you might want to try this program on a few scratched CDs to see your reader fail...
    http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

  9. Re:It would never work... by Hatta · · Score: 1 · on Encrypting Digital Music With Multiple Keys

    That's only because MP3's lose quality, a lot. Well, at the standard 128k/s Try it. Get CD Paranoia for Linux or Exact Audio Copy for Windows. Get LAME to encode to MP3 for either platform. Encode to 128k/s. Now get a friend, or write a script, to randomly play the CD or MP3. I can tell the difference with junky computer speakers, forget about it on a stereo. 256k/s is much better, I've seen articles quote tests that no one can tell the difference.
    -Hatta