Subject: Re: MP3 rippng too slow
From: Gordon Neault (gordo-x@shaw.ca)
Date: Mon Mar 11 2002 - 21:30:48 MST
"... "On the Sound Blaster Live!, there is a CD_SPDIF connector which lets
you
connect the digital output from your CD-ROM drive to the cards. A digital
cable is bundled with the Sound Blaster Live! for this purpose .
To use the digital output from your CD-ROM, connect the supplied digital
cable from the digital output of your CD-ROM to the CD_SPDIF connector on
the
Sound Blaster Live! (see diagram below). You can control the volume of the
CD
by using the CD Digital slider on the Sound Blaster Live! mixer. If you are
using the CD_SPDIF connector for your CD-ROM, you should mute the regular
CD
Audio input of the mixer so that you will not get a doubled sound."
so, as you can see, there is no analog to digital conversion taking place
-
maybe there was 5 years ago, but not anymore. ..."
If you don't use the RCA analog jacks from your CD player (a lot of people
with PCs do) you can output the 44.1/16bit signal to your S/PDIF
compatible sound card. After that, we go to...
Resampling the 44.1/16 bit signal to 48Khz...
You cut out one step (and another on the burning side), but left in the
rest, none of which can possibly maintain or improve data integrity.
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