Re: [tlug] Audio CD Issues

[David Santinoli <marauder@example.com>]

On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 01:27:20PM +0900, Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon wrote:
> 
> been doing this on and off for a few years on different hardware and
> with different software and I've noticed that some combinations
> (sorry, I don't have a precise record) of software & hardware produce
> disks that sound perfect, but some disks - while readable - have
> extremely irritating popping sounds that crop up every thirty seconds
> or so.

Do the bad CDs sound the same (with pops and cracks) on any reader?
In this case, it's probably an audio extraction issue.  For reading
audio tracks, you'd better put dd aside and use cdparanoia instead
(never forget the -z option!).

Cheers,
 David
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