[sdiy] OT: Scratchy CDs

[Ingo Debus]

Am Dienstag, 23.09.03 um 17:56 Uhr schrieb john mahoney:

>
>>> The error correction process for an audio CD ...
>>
>> Does this error correction also work when a track is "ripped" (or
>> however it's called) via a CD-ROM drive in a computer? ...
>
> Eerror correction is part of the Red Book spec for audio CDs. So yes, 
> it is
> there on writeable CDs, too. The usual burn errors are not due to a 
> simple
> lack of error correction code.
>

I didn't mean burn errors. I was talking about errors that occur when a 
track is read from an audio CD (not necessarily a CD-R) onto a 
computer's hard disk.

Ingo