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RE: Enjoy this Bedini Patent

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kenzo

In Reply to: RE: Enjoy this Bedini Patent posted by Tony Lauck on June 20, 2010 at 17:18:47

Not even 1/10000th of the music I want to listen to is available in any format except CD.

Are you listening to a very limited catalog of music? Or some other secret for how to get it all without CDs in the path?

kenzo

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RE: Enjoy this Bedini Patent - Tony Lauck 07:09:28 06/21/10 (2)
You can rip your CDs to a computer hard drive. Once a CD has been correctly ripped to hard drive it is out of the path. The sound quality you get will no longer depend on quirks of the disk, instead it will depend on quirks of your computer system. Ripping software exists that will give you a detailed report to show that the CD was correctly ripped. If errors are reported (less than 5% of the disks I work with) you can clean them and try again. Out of hundreds there have been a few that were bad, i.e. CD rot or they were "pooched" and could not be ripped correctly, although they would play with some sound degradation on some players.

Of course, you don't remove the need for tweaks. There are an absurd number of computer audio tweaks. :-)

Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
- Tony What CD Ripping Software Do You Use Or Recommend Using? (nt) - thetubeguy1954 11:47:53 06/21/10 (1)
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  - RE: Tony What CD Ripping Software Do You Use Or Recommend Using? (nt) - Tony Lauck 14:14:27 06/21/10 (0)
    I use either dBpoweramp or EAC. dBpoweramp is easier to set up and has access to a larger set of Internet databases, so it gets more album tag information that EAC. I haven't noticed much of a difference between them in terms of ability to read marginal disks. dBpoweramp is slightly faster for albums in the Accurate Rip database, as it makes only a single pass. It can also overlap ripping a track and compressing the previous track.
    
    With either program it is important to check the error log and make sure that all tracks were ripped correctly.
    
    Tony Lauck
    
    "Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar

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