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RE: digital errors?



Really? How do you make the 'digital image'?

Mr. T...


>From: McMorrough_James/londres_sistemas@sinvest.es
>Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
>To: Kriist@aol.com, Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
>Subject: RE: digital errors?
>Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 10:06:50 +0000
>
>
>Mmm, He's right you know, as far as I know you should ALWAYS copy audio
>CD's at single speed, the spoddy reason for this is that CD audio is
>unsynchronised data. Data cd's on the other hand have checksums which
>the drive uses to tell whether it read the data correctly or not, so
>with data it keeps reading that part of the disk until it gets it right,
>and then it writes it to the target, but with audio it'll just read it,
>& then write whatever it thought it just read introducing errors,
>especially if you multiply the speed up.
>
>Here's a suggestion……Why don't you make a digital image, ie a datafile,
>of your CD with one of these CD creation programs & keep that as your
>master, then you can burn 1st Gen copies from here to eternity…..
>
>
>Banco Santander Central Hispano S.A.
>James McMorrough
>Systems Analyst/Developer
>Tel: (+44) 171 332 7475
>E-mail: jmcmorrough.londres@sinvest.es
>
>
>       -----Original Message-----
>       From:    Kriist [mailto:Kriist@aol.com]
>       Sent:    Monday, November 29, 1999 7:33 PM
>       To:      Loopers-Delight
>       Cc:      Kriist
>       Subject: digital errors?
>
>       after copying some of my improv stuff(looping)to cds ive noticed
>       some
>       peculiar stuff
>       i only own copies of copies of my originals(the originals were on
>       my HD but i
>       erased them after i burned them)and the original copies i gave
>       away to friends
>       now i know in analog recording you hvae generation loss, and it
>       can be
>       substancial
>       but ive noticed alot of digital errors now in the recordings,
>       little clicks
>       or skips, some are really noticable
>       whats going on here?is it a problem of imperfect media(cdr's)or is
>       something
>       lost everytime?!
>       a friend of mine told me once(i hardly listen to him)programs like
>       WinDAC not
>       being the best for copying digital audio
>       that they go to fast(hence digital erros)??
>       and on another list somebody was talking about how his cd masters
>       do not
>       sound like the cd copies(in timbre)
>       can that be possible if all thats being transfered is 1s and 0s?
>
>       thanks
>
>       rodrigo

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