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audibility of errors

Posted by mls-stl on August 2, 2011 at 20:12:54

In Reply to: RE: dBpoweramp Accu-rip, trust it or not? posted by Tony Lauck on August 2, 2011 at 17:08:51:

>> If you go and listen to the track then there is a 50-50 chance you won't
>> hear anything wrong. If you own a CD and it rips with errors and you
>> want to listen to it, then just do so. You may be pleasantly surprised
>> that the error are inaudible.

I'd second the motion to give error tracks a listen, especially if the ripper didn't seem to work very hard to get past it. Remember that a misread of one single bit out of millions will cause Accuraterip to report a rip error.

Often, you can't hear the error. Other times, you'll hear an error, but it is a single instance of a click that is no more objectionable than the same sound on a LP. But, sometimes the playback of the ripped track is unacceptable. A different CD drive may give a better results, or it may not.

However, I think Tony's point is a good suggestion - it often pays to listen to the track before discarding it just because of an error report.

It is interesting how much is forgiven in the playback of analog sources, yet things turn so absolute with digital material.

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