[irishcrazy2005]

Originally Posted by Five

I've never read that... I've had discs where I had to rip several times and switch from secure to paranoid mode to get 100.00% quality. This would imply to me that the track quality is the quality of the rip since I was using the same cd. I've also read other ppl saying that they had to rip several times to get 100.00%...

Right, what I am saying is that you don't need it to say 100% to be a completely accurate rip. As long as each track says "Copy OK" and the bottom says "No errors occured," then the disc was copied exactly. I am going to dig through and try to find where I read this now.

-Phil

Edit: Okay, here it is. It's from The Coaster Factory:

While Peak level tells nothing about the quality of extraction, Track quality does. A Track quality of 100% obviously means that the track was extracted 100% correct. But here's where some people make mistakes; sometimes EAC rereads certain audio sectors multiple times to get accurate extraction results. For every reread EAC does, the Track quality decreases, but this does not mean that the extraction is less accurate. It is possible to have a bit-by-bit perfect copy of a track, while Track quality is lower than 100%. As long as Exact Audio Copy does not report any errors in the Status and Error Messages log, the extracted files are bit-by-bit perfect copies of the original. Track quality should be interpreted as the physical quality of the CD and not of the extracted data. A CD with some scratches or dirty fingers on will certainly cause rereads in EAC and thus a Track quality lower than 100%, but still the extracted tracks may be perfect. Thus if the log says Copy OK for a track that means it's extracted perfect - no matter of the Track quality. So, I hope that made things more clear as many people are confused by the Track quality.

Here is the exact link if you wish to read more http://users.pandora.be/satcp/eac07.htm#-