Subject: Re: MP3 rippng too slow
From: Steven Frankini (sfrankini@mac.com)
Date: Mon Mar 11 2002 - 21:58:54 MST
What? Your soundcard shouldn't be a factor in ripping cds at all. Programs
like iTunes (mac), EAC(Win), and cdparanoia(linux) directly extract audio
from the disk. No sound card even needs to be in the system to rip. There is
still room for error in the process, but your soundcard isn't to blame for
poor quality.
Any difference in quality directly relates to the codec used and it
settings. (bitrate, vbr, highpass/lowpass, etc.)
The soundcard only becomes a factor in playback.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gordon Neault" <gordo-x@shaw.ca>
To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 11:30 PM
Subject: Re: MP3 rippng too slow
> "... "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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