Re: Digital Audio Extraction with ATAPI drives far from perfect

Alistair John Strachan
2006-01-04T19:36:04Z

On Wednesday 04 January 2006 15:50, Sebastian wrote:
> Hello all! Hi Jens!
>
> I'd be kind if you would cc me in case you reply as I'm not (yet)
> subscribed to this list.
>
> On Mi, Jan 04, 2006 at 10:24:44 +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 04 2006, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > Can you try and see how, say, track01 differ? Is it single bytes,
> > > chunks of 2352 bytes, or?
> >
> > Oh, and try and disable DMA on the cd driver and repeat your results
> > with ide-cd. It uses DMA, where ide-scsi does not. Dunno what Windows
> > does. It could just be a problem with your drive and DMA enabled rips.
>
> Hi Jens,
>
> I did as you said and disabled dma:

Just a thought, but could you try ripping to something without a header, like
RAW? In your case you seem to have been lucky and it'll make no difference,
but WAV headers can vary slightly even if the PCM contained within is
identical.

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Cheers,
Alistair.

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