On 03/27/2005 05:50 PM, lid wrote:
I may not be understanding this right, but IIRC ripping degrades sound
quality, then re-burning to CD more so (depending on compression & codec).
Is there any way to burn the exact digital image of what was on the 1st CD
to a 2nd? How bout to the HDD and be able to play it from there? If so,
what prog(s) do I need for each?

Ripping extracts the digital data directly from the CD, so it shouldn't
degrade the sound quality unless the disc is so scratched or damaged
that too many errors occur for the error-correction system to deal with.
If you set your ripping program to use lossy encoding to store the
ripped files (such as MP3), though, that will technically degrade the
quality, since a lot of the original audio data is being thrown out. If
you save them in uncompressed format (e.g., WAV) and use them to burn
the second disc, you should not have any loss in quality.

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Travis
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