Thanks for that.

You also touched on another very important safety point. When too many bits are on one side of a CD causing an out of balance at speed. This occurs when the beat of the recorded music equals the CD speed and can be hazardous.

An analogy is when a washing machine spins with too much weight on one side and vibrates excessively. It was common knowledge in the early days of CD that they could fly out of the machine, often causing considerable damage.

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Bit rate? What?
The CDs in question disintegrate due to a number of structural failure modes associated with the forces across the disk.
52x is an absolute upper bound and very few so rated drives ever reach this even on the outer track. The inner track on these drives reads a lot slower than 52x.


Edit: AHA! Everyone was have'n a piss take lol... I should have read more of what came above.

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I'm sorry, but this situation could have been avoided if you had only accepted the authority of Youtube videos as scientific proof. In my country you can be fined 86 Ugandan Dollars for this offense. No matter how many pidgeons guard one's bank account, a threat of this magnitude cannot be taken lightly.

Wow, 52x and a Out of Balance CD due to bit depth loss.

Has anyone researched this hazard?

The stored energy in your CD player would be like a gas turbine loosing a fan blade!

As a matter of fact... yes: PowerLabs High Speed Exploding CDs!

Just do a google/youtube search for "cd" and "dremel".

LOL. Did he do the special effects for that scene in Hellraiser where the DJ gets his head chopped in 2 by a CD?

Obviously a 7in vinyl record would not suffer from mp3 bit depth loss due to the analogue recording methods used.

If I trimmed one down to fit and played it in my CD player it would get rid of the problem. Would it also get rid of those harsh digital artifacts that digital playback often produces.

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I never had a good feeling about MP3 and something bad would happen.

mp3's spell trouble.

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one time i overclocked my cd-drive and all of a sudden i felt an excruciating pain in my calf. i looked down and all the zeros and ones were shooting into my leg. i stupidly left all my ports forwarded without a backup firewall. needless to say, i never did it again.

I <3 this thread. Bookmarked for the lulz.

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lol'z

Be careful, while Flac is certainly better that MP3, wav is the way to go. From experience, let me tell you what's best:

Wav + NO cue files. What is little known is that the seeking feature of all audio formats is broken. Since the previous notes are unplayed when you start in a middle of an audio file, the followng seconds show an audible distortion if you have good ears. If you have golden ears, you can even notice that minute effect for 1 minute approximately. Using flac, this distortion is even more audible since it's a compressed format and it can be heard for 5 minutes.

So, not only you have to listen to wav, but listen from the beginning of the album, otherwise sound quality WILL be compromised. if you really need metadata, use the CD or a separate text file. Morover, don't forget not to exceed 8 characters filenames. and place the files at the root of C:, the shorter path will make the files easier to access for the player, leading to a greater fluidity and liquidity of the sound.

Those advice were provided by an experienced engineer in audio hardware (cable specialist) and they changed my music, since using them, the sibilance problems I had with the HD 800 totally disappeared.

My mp3's are already about 2 years old since I started being serious into music. Oh man, I sure hope none of them will magically disappear in my hard drive...

wave is better because it gives you reason why you need to explain to your other half why you need another hard drive since you're running out of space.

So...if mp3's are rotting... then Creative WAS right all along! Its super audio enhancement software Crystalizer is the ultimate way to prevent mp3 degradation, and even makes them superior to their original recordings!!!!

24 Bit Crystalizer, The Hidden Technology : Creative's X-Fi Sounds Fabulous

Creative, you're a genius!