Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Reading/playing a "copy protected" CD : Reed-Solomon correction?
From: Malcolm Baldridge (linux-audio_AT_paypc.com)
Date: Mon Jun 28 2004 - 04:13:16 EEST
> Not all is lost: Try to find another computer with another CD drive.
> Various drives handle these kinds of broken CDs differently. You could
> also do an analogue copy, which can be of almost the same quality as a
> digital rip.
Do these things deliberately have broken CIRC (L1 errors)? They must sound
distorted, as when audio data doesn't survive level 2 - that's it. Unlike
CD-ROM Mode 1 Form 1 (data) which has L-ECC (and retries), you're in the
land of data loss and frame interpolation.
> Other than that I can only think of searching some P2P networks for
> the contents of your CD, which you are kept away from although you
> paid for it.
Those would be lossily compressed. You'd be better off making an analogue dub.
=MB=
-- A focus on Quality.
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