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That's generally how the flow chart works in the rip process, if you feel reasonably confident that you've correctly identified your release (specifically the c
by devman0 4y ago
That's generally how the flow chart works in the rip process, if you feel reasonably confident that you've correctly identified your release (specifically the correct pressing) you can burst rip the disc and then compare the ripped tracks to other rips from the same pressing (see also AccurateRip). If you got the same hash as other people ripping the same pressing then you're done.
If your pressing doesn't have a good sample size of hashes to compare to then you use a more secure ripping method that generally makes use of the accurate stream feature (most drives manufactured in the last decade or so have it) it's a slower but more repeatable process of reading a red book CD intended to suppress jitter and alignment errors. If you get through an accurate stream rip and you encounter no read/C2 errors you're probably ok, but if you really have no/few samples to compare against you may be paranoid and rerip the disk a few times to make sure you get repeatable results or even rip the disk with another drive all together.
- nickelpro 4y agoI can respect the paranoia around ensuring bit-accurate rips of CDs with little-if-any existing metadata on the web. I remain suspicious of the cargo cult of EAC as doing something substantially different than cdrtools or anything else that knows the ins-and-outs of the redbook format
- devman0 4y agoCompletely understandable, EAC is certainly not the only software capable of using accurate stream features on CD drives or doing AccurateRip DB comparisons. Making bit-perfect archival rips is more about soundness of "the process" than the software you do it with, EAC is just one such tool.
- Nav_Panel 4y agoA lot of the emphasis on EAC is that robust automatic logfile validation tools exist for it (from what I can tell?), so it requires less manual inspection for archival. But I agree that other tools are likely equally capable.
- UltraViolence 4y agoI was actually wondering if there is a database on the web with the SHA-256 hashes of all the ripped CD tracks ever released. That would be useful.