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EAC & Drive Offset
So are optical drives getting better and thus no offset? I just built this computer. I kept my burner but got a new dvd drive. I never ripped cds using my burner so I never determined my offset for the drive before.
So, since I had a new drive that the offset needed to be determined I figured may as well do my burner. Funny thing, Both drives had no missing or extra samples and therefore no offset. I find this strange, 2 drives from different manufacturers bought 15 months apart. So here's the procedure I used, and the same I've always used and the same as my goggling found. 1. Decode shn or flac set to wav 2. Burn cdr 3. rip newly created cdr 4. use eac to compare wavs. Original wav from flac 1st in the compare I had a real old version of eac at first. Thought that could be problem. I installed the latest version and same results. Do I actually have 2 drives with no offset? Any ideas? Thanks!!! d No members have liked this post.
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Re: EAC & Drive Offset
I am certainly no expert but I have performed the same test as you (actually, going even further, downloading a copy of a disk I had bought, ripped the disk and then compared), and they were identical.
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Re: EAC & Drive Offset
http://xs.vc/eac/
don't skip any steps. when you get to the AccurateRip portion of the setup, it will determine the correct offset. No members have liked this post.
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However, say I have a cd and it was released again and the new release is different somehow, how do I know acurate rip is going to be correct. What puzzles me is my old version of eac gave 0 offset. we'll get this figured out. need to find a cd in my collection that's on the list. happy holidays! d No members have liked this post.
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Re: EAC & Drive Offset
the list isn't accurate anymore, there's more than 20,000 discs in the database now. try a couple of different ones.
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The first drive when running accruate rip wanted 3 discs to check, ergo the reason for so many discs. The 2nd drive only asked for 1 disc to check the database And what's more interesting is that accurate rip determined both drives have +6 samples and +24 bytes!!! I still don't know why comparing wavs from a known wav and a ripped wav didn't render anything other than zero for both drives. But now both my drives, instead of 0 offset, have +6!!! I'm thinking of putting my old cd rom in and trying the compare wav method and the accuate rip method. I know the offset for that, if it were correct. Thanks for your help Randy! No members have liked this post.
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