Re: arsclist media preservation and access project

[Don Cox <doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 19-Nov-02, Goran Finnberg wrote:

> As I do loadbacks from Red Book CDRs and doing reguarly bit for bit
> verifications I can state that it will do that without no appearent
> problem at all.
> 
> I´ve done that reguarly since 9 years back and I´ve never seen a disk
> that I´ve done that isn´t bit for bit identical with the original
> soundfile on my Sonic Solutions hard disk.

If you are using a Plextor or similar drive, you may be getting back the
exact bits, but the system doesn't guarantee it. If the Reed-Solomon
correction can't restore the exact bits, a normal player will
interpolate. A computer drive reading a WAV file will never interpolate.

 
Regards
-- 
Don Cox
doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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