Re: old burned cd file in wav

umm ...  do FLAC files not have "proper tagging?"

On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 7:17 PM Mike Walsh [email protected] [EAC] <
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> Not to beat a dead horse, but I’ll add this:
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> I would not ever keep a collection as wav.  I would do flac or alac.
> Personally I use alac for lossless.  Both save space and allow proper
> tagging.  And with eac, u can use accuraterip to ensure u got a bit perfect
> rip and fix the file (to match what the online dB says) if u didn’t.
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> Also, I have read u can add crc checks to flacs, which are helpful for
> when u copy or clone files etc.  with a scanner, u can see if the new file
> has the right crc, and if not, it means some errors (degradation) occurred
> when copying.  Personally, I don’t worry about this, it’s typically so
> small ud never notice and it doesn’t occur often to begin with.  but it’s
> good for those that do worry.  I use alac so the files are basically
> universal with apple or windows, but I am pretty sure it doesn’t support
> that feature.
>
> Anyway, the simple answer is rip to flac or alac and don’t worry about
> much else.
>
> -mdw
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> *Thanks all for the excellent answers and education. I appreciate it*
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> *Sent:* Sunday, September 27, 2020 11:38 PM
> *To:* Fred Maxwell [email protected] [EAC] <[email protected]>
> *Subject:* Re: [EAC] old burned cd file in wav
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> > > I ask this because we all know that if you burn a video to lets say a
> dvd and then use that same dvd to burn another one there will be
> degradation.
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> Sorry that I am late to the party. But, I need to correct the above.
>
> If you burn the video to DVD-ROM, say a MKV wrapped video, there will be
> no degradation. If you take that MKV file from the DVD-ROM and burn it to
> another DVD-ROM, again no degradation. If you make an ISO of the DVD and
> burn the ISO, no degradation.
>
> You will only have degradation if you re-encode the video. If the video
> was MPEG-2 and was DVD-video compliant, you could author a DVD-video and
> have no video degradation. If you copy that DVD-video, you will have no
> degradation. But, if you have to recode the video before the DVD authoring
> process, you will have degradation. You will have NO further degradation
> if you copy that authored DVD-video.
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> The key point is that you have to have recoding before you can have
> further degradation.
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> All of the above applies to Blue-ray ROMs and/or Blu-ray authored videos.
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