Gap detection accuracy levels in EAC, how bad is "inaccurate"? |
Gap detection accuracy levels in EAC, how bad is "inaccurate"? |
 Mar 20 2005, 06:34
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Sorry for starting so many threads...but this one is important.
I've just ripped about 150 CDs of my collection with EAC, and I just realized that my gap detection was set to method B, inaccurate. I've done some searches and found that secure and accurate are about the same, but I couldn't figure out how bad inaccurate is in comparison. I tried re-reripping a few discs, and noticed no difference in the cuesheets. So how bad is inaccurate? If there's much risk that my rips are off, I'll probably redo the whole thing...I'm kind of nuts that way (want as close to perfect rips as possible) and I've got lots of time this summer.... |
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Mar 29 2007, 20:40
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What you are comparing are the waveforms of the images, which are independent from the cuesheets / gaps. The gaps are not periods of silence, but simply a sorf of marks, which still may contain audio data. I've got (at least) one CD which is gapless (a DJ mix), but nonetheless has "gaps".
If you take a look at a cuesheet, you'll notice that it has "TRACK" entries, and they have "INDEX" entries. "INDEX 01" is the position where the player jumps to when you choose this track. But these can also be an "INDEX 00" indicating the start of the gap between this track and the one before. This period between "INDEX 00" and "INDEX 01" is the "gap" (the pregap, to be precise), but noone forces the manufacturer of the CD to set the gaps in a way that they contain only silence. |
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PFS Gap detection accuracy levels in EAC Mar 20 2005, 06:34
AtaqueEG Depends on your drive, really.
Most modern drives... Mar 20 2005, 06:43 dewey1973 From The Coaster Factory:
QUOTE The Detection acc... Mar 20 2005, 06:53 PFS Awesome, thanks for the replys....that was just wh... Mar 20 2005, 14:58 Societal Eclipse I've seen some differences between Method A - ... Mar 20 2005, 17:38
PFS QUOTE (Societal Eclipse @ Mar 20 2005, 10:38 ... Mar 20 2005, 19:06 Pio2001 The gap information is not in the TOC AFAIK. It is... Mar 21 2005, 00:24 precisionist QUOTE (Pio2001 @ Mar 21 2005, 12:24 AM)The ga... Mar 31 2005, 20:08 Supacon Kind of unrelated, but I noticed that Plextools... Mar 31 2005, 22:24 PFS Man, I know what you mean. It's the kind of t... Apr 1 2005, 17:02 hdarwen Have noticed the same thing with differences in Pl... Apr 15 2005, 16:02 Supacon QUOTE (hdarwen @ Apr 15 2005, 07:02 AM)...am ... Apr 26 2005, 21:45 markanini QUOTE (Supacon @ Apr 26 2005, 12:45 PM)QUOTE ... Apr 26 2005, 22:45 hdarwen QUOTE (markanini @ Apr 26 2005, 10:45 PM)Of c... Apr 27 2005, 12:22 toNka Well, I've done a little testing and came up w... Mar 29 2007, 18:48 JunkieXL The tracks will not be affected by a difference in... Mar 29 2007, 20:14 greynol QUOTE (JunkieXL @ Mar 29 2007, 12:14) The... Mar 29 2007, 20:49 toNka I append gaps to the previous track (EAC Default) ... Apr 5 2007, 10:24 greynol QUOTE (toNka @ Apr 5 2007, 02:24) I appen... Apr 5 2007, 19:13 toNka So, is there a better way, more bit perfect, to ri... Apr 6 2007, 11:35 |
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