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Article #65Re: MP3 Geeks, how do I rip this kind of CD?
From: Albert Nurick
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 10:34
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 10:34
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"Craig Becker" <jlpicard@serv2.jump.net> wrote in message news:GJR%7.55$6n1.33871@news20... > Okay, while we're on the topic of CDs and ripping and all . . . how > does MP3 (a lossy format) compare with simply playing the CD into a > A/D converter and effectively going Digital -> Analog -> Digital? As > far as I know, there's *no* copy protection mechanism that'll prevent > this. > > Has anyone done this? How does the final quality compare to straight > ripping? It'll suffer; how much depends on how good your analog bits are. Another technique is to use the optical or coax digital output on a modern CD player, and feed it into the similar input on a high-end audio card. Pure digital. -- Albert Nurick albert@nurick.com
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