RE: old burned cd file in wav

Thanks Jeff,

 

Sometimes I have discs that are very scratched and it would be nice to have a quick confirmation if the disc will read properly, but it really isn’t a big deal.  Some people have commented in the past at the time it takes to rip a disc, but for me that isn’t such a big deal as I am not looking to rip hundreds or even dozens in a session.  While not being a patient person, I have no problem starting the ripping process going elsewhere to do stuff and come back to see if it finished.  I wasn’t sure if there was some kind of short cut I wasn’t aware of, but it seems reasonable that the only way to do it would be to read the entire disc no matter what so might as well try and rip.

 

I also seem to be much less concerned with the results than what I am reading about here the last few days.

 

Mike

 

 

 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, October 02, 2020 12:39 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [EAC] old burned cd file in wav

 

  

On 10/1/20 4:57 PM, 'M' [email protected] [EAC] wrote:

> All of this discussion assumes that a music source provides a
> valid music file, without errors.  As I understand it, EAC can
> provide this security by using AccurateRip in the Ripping process.
> Is there a way to test a CD for its integrity without going
> through the ripping process?  In other word is there a way to put
> in a CD into a drive and run some kind of scan to see if there
> are scratches or other issues that will impact the playing/ripping
> of the disc?

I don't think so…but in my head there'd be no practical way to implement something like that in a manner meaningfully different from simply extracting everything. Wouldn't you still wind up reading the entire CD to perform that test? And in the case of any damage or errors you'd wind up reading at least some sectors over and over.

On the other hand, while it's not what you're asking about, there's a way to test accuracy after the fact: CueTools. In several cases, I've even had it repair the data from discs that were too damaged to read accurately as well as bad data provided by others who didn't use good software like EAC. It's pretty close to black magic.