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Not true. If you ripped a CD using the same software and settings as someone else, your files would be identical, byte for byte. There is no magic fingerprint
by illumin8 15y ago
Not true. If you ripped a CD using the same software and settings as someone else, your files would be identical, byte for byte. There is no magic fingerprinting, however, a lot of pirated tracks could be determined by looking at ID3 tag information since most warez crews like to brag about their releases.
- waffle_ss 15y agoThat's simply not true when talking about audio CDs. You can even get non-identical rips from the same machine with the same CD-ROM drive, software and settings. The issue is that the audio CD standard ("Red book") does not require block-accurate addressing during seeking[1]. This allows you to still be able to play scratched up CDs, with the trade off being that even discs that aren't scratched up that bad may not give you a byte-for-byte copy on different reads. To try and account for this, CD ripping programs like EAC have to make multiple read passes and apply certain algorithms to determine where jitters occur and only take the "good parts." [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jitter#Compact_disc_seek_jitter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jitter#Compact_disc_seek_jitter
- jrabone 15y agoI thought the point of Accurate Stream was to provide the ability to do sample-accurate streaming, along with C2 error detection to know when there was a problem. EAC only does multiple jittered read passes if your drive doesn't support Accurate Stream. How else can it do hash checks for accurate rips? EDIT: I confused C2 error pointers and Accurate Stream. Mea culpa.
- apenwarr 15y agoYou're talking about read errors. Run a ripper that fixes/retries/etc the read errors, and you'll have an identical rip.