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I love how this software would have been legend in the 90s/00s but now you are just a weird audiophile nerd for messing around with physical CDs.

croes 4y ago
In the 00s you just used Exact Audio Copy
- orangepurple 4y ago
  Still used in Russia constantly. It's the gold standard.
criddell 4y ago
Audiophile nerds have moved on to digital formats that are much higher res than CD or have gone 100% analog.
- dmitryminkovsky 4y ago
  There is a commercially available digital format/medium that has higher res than CD? Like, there are 96kHz discs being sold out there? And there are labels out there mastering and producing these discs? Sorry this is news to me! I thought 96kHz encodes were upsamples or homemade rips from analog formats.
  - bagels 4y ago
    Aac on an SSD or on the internet?
  - dstaley 4y ago
    Most hi-res audio is being sold as digital downloads. I don't think there's a currently-sold physical medium that contains digital data that's higher quality than a CD.
    - lowbloodsugar 4y ago
      SACD (DSD format) is higher than CD but still not as high as 24/96k available on sites like Qobuz.
    - merlyn 4y ago
      SACD, HD-Audio, Blu-Ray Audio. I own music only discs in each of these formats. I think the last Blu-Ray Audio disk I bought (Yello Point Dolby Atmos release) was shipped in 2021. Granted, they are fairly sparse. That disc was an import.
  - aforwardslash 4y ago
    Yes, obviously, its called SACD and its a couple of decades old. Even DAT is better than cd, if you're only comparing sampling rate. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Audio_CD https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Audio_CD
    - oxfeed65261 4y ago
      Also DVD-Audio, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-Audio https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-Audio.
  - KingLancelot 4y ago
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dirkt 4y ago
We just used cdparanoia back then (on Linux, on Windows you used EAC). Actually, this Python app uses the cdparanoia library for the ripping itself.

croes 4y ago

In the 00s you just used Exact Audio Copy

orangepurple 4y ago
Still used in Russia constantly. It's the gold standard.

criddell 4y ago

Audiophile nerds have moved on to digital formats that are much higher res than CD or have gone 100% analog.

dmitryminkovsky 4y ago
There is a commercially available digital format/medium that has higher res than CD? Like, there are 96kHz discs being sold out there? And there are labels out there mastering and producing these discs? Sorry this is news to me! I thought 96kHz encodes were upsamples or homemade rips from analog formats.
- bagels 4y ago
  Aac on an SSD or on the internet?
- dstaley 4y ago
  Most hi-res audio is being sold as digital downloads. I don't think there's a currently-sold physical medium that contains digital data that's higher quality than a CD.
  - lowbloodsugar 4y ago
    SACD (DSD format) is higher than CD but still not as high as 24/96k available on sites like Qobuz.
  - merlyn 4y ago
    SACD, HD-Audio, Blu-Ray Audio. I own music only discs in each of these formats. I think the last Blu-Ray Audio disk I bought (Yello Point Dolby Atmos release) was shipped in 2021. Granted, they are fairly sparse. That disc was an import.
- aforwardslash 4y ago
  Yes, obviously, its called SACD and its a couple of decades old. Even DAT is better than cd, if you're only comparing sampling rate. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Audio_CD https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Audio_CD
  - oxfeed65261 4y ago
    Also DVD-Audio, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-Audio https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-Audio.
- KingLancelot 4y ago
  [dead]

dirkt 4y ago

We just used cdparanoia back then (on Linux, on Windows you used EAC). Actually, this Python app uses the cdparanoia library for the ripping itself.