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Re: [LUG] Audio-CD copying



On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Jonathan Melhuish wrote:

> Yeah, I guess it's a trade-off between quality and speed.  I'm just surprised 
> that my CD-ROM drive seems to have such problems reading the disc when my 
> hi-fi CD player will play it without any noticable quality degregation.  Will 
> copying it with "no paranoia" just copy all the errors and leave it to the 
> player to sort out?

Remember that your hi-fi will only ever play the cd at 1x speed, where as 
your pc will try and read it at up to 50x, so the latter will be much 
more sensitive to errors.

Alex.


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