Audio data varies from drive to drive?

Laurent Charrière <[email protected]> Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:46:41 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.cd-paranoia.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

Out of curiosity I ripped the same track on three different 
CDROM-drives, for two different discs. Each time I used the command 
"cdparanoia 1". The ripping went with no error in each case.

I noticed that the resulting cdda.wav files are different from drive to 
drive. When I look at the files in vbindiff I can see that the 
differences are scattered throughout the files. For example at a given 
offset, one file will have a byte value of 0x00, the other will have 
0x01 -- the differences seem to be small, although I have seen sometimes 
0xff instead of 0x00.

I would expect the audio data to be identical regardless of the drive 
which does the reading. Am I doing something wrong?

I'm happy to provide the drive specs if you need them.