Call for capable people to do a comparison of rippers Options

[Jan S.]

Hi.

Over the years and recently (here and here) there have been many discussions and questions about the differences between different cd rippers. New rippers with secure ripping facilities (dbpoweramp, CUEtools, foobar etc) have emerged in recent years and it is now difficult to judge compared to some years ago when the only answer was EAC.

For this reason I thought it could be very good to have a page at the wiki trying to explain in a concise form what the differences are. I was imagining a table with features like we have done for the Lossless format comparison but probably also additional text is required.

I do not consider myself close to competent to try to do this but I have tried to setup a starting point for such a page here: http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?ti...n_of_CD_rippers
I hope the capable people here will invest some time into this so as to save time repeating these points. Please post your thoughts on this idea: how best to organize?, what to put in the table?, which programs are relevant?, what other issues need to be explain in text?, etc.

Some more links:
wikipedias list of rippers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD_ripper
Kind of comparison here for secure ripping features: http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Secure_ripping

[willow]

I'm having the impression that novadays CD drives are that much self aware that it make no difference what settings or software to use. Different drives return the different results with the same software and settings. I had the unpleasant experience to choose drive i trust more. No matter the software i used (few EAC's too) the result was the same for unit but unique for each drive. They are simply self evident black boxes, back in the days there was the possibility to retrieve the raw data on reading operation by diskette and i did actually saved a few unreadable files. What the raw reading is seems to be the weak semi-random pattern of unstable sector that depends on physical damage and can be analized in manual manner. Within a few spinning iterations there was even a chance for controller to catch up and return the absolutely correct pattern but erroneous by the dumb controller standpoint. I'm not sure the modern devices are that much handsome.

Would be glad to every find outs about best rippers but keeping not much hope for them.

This post has been edited by willow: Jul 26 2010, 12:41