Re: CD Ripping Uncertainty Again

Eric Sandeen <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:32:38 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.cd-paranoia.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Alex wrote:
> I noticed something else. I tried three separate rips, and checked the 
> results with diff. The three different rips of the good tracks are 
> identical; each of the bad track rip is different.

I've seen this too FWIW - usually also corresponded to which drive I was using 
- i.e. scratched CD in noname drive, different rips.  Same CD in a plextor, 
consistent rips.

A fun way to look at the resulting differences is with wavdiff:
http://www.sommerfee.de/programme.html

I think I had to fix it up just a little to make it build on linux FWIW.

-Eric