This site explains much of the technicalities - http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/ ... and the software "cdparanoia" was created to address much of the angst over high quality cd extractions. On Wed, May 22, 2013 11:50 pm, R Kimber wrote: > On Thu, 23 May 2013 00:44:31 +0200 > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> On Wed, 2013-05-22 at 23:03 +0100, R Kimber wrote: >> > If I rip the same CD on two different occasions, would I be right to >> > expect the two sets of tracks to have the same md5sum, or is ripping >> > not that precise? >> >> A digital copy, is a digital copy, is a digital copy. They can fail, but >> usually they don't fail. It's more likely that you e.g. ripped one CD >> one-to-one and for another CD you perhaps automagically add pauses >> between the tracks. > > Sorry, I don't understand. I'm just running the same ripper (rubyripper) > on the same CD, in the same CDROM drive, on the same PC, on different > occasions. The process is reported as completing successfully, but I get > different md5sums. > > - Richard. > -- > Richard Kimber > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user > > ~~~ Home site - http://djbarney.org _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
