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post #16 of 21
3/4/04 at 4:00am
If you are using foobar2k and upsampling while ripping with EAC you may get the occasional sync error. If you just check the error report it's fairly easy to throw out any bad songs and re-rip.
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post #17 of 21
3/4/04 at 4:03am

Parity / Checksum

Why dont you use a Parity bit by bit checking utility to verify the complete image transfer to the media? Checksum is also good but not as accurate IMO
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post #18 of 21
3/4/04 at 4:05am
It also depends on your thread priority settings, CPU speed, and how the programs are configured. EAC extraction doesn't take much CPU, but compressing the audio does, so I suspect if an error were to occur, it would be in the compression. But you can just lower the compressor's priority, so it doesn't conflict with your other programs.
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post #19 of 21
3/4/04 at 7:08pm
I noticed I would hear pops, clicks, and weird noise every once in awhile if I was listening to Foobar at the same time as I was using EAC ripping and encoding. It didn't effect the rips. It just caused Foobar to hiccup now and then.

-Ed
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post #20 of 21
3/4/04 at 10:17pm
1. Using the computer while ripping does nothing to change the quality of the song being ripped unless you are using an inferior copying device (EAC is one of the best ones out there to my understanding, amongst some others).

2. However you will notice massive performance losses both in the non-cd applications and in the actual ripper whilst multitasking. Ripping is CPU intensive so you're best sipping a cup of coffee and reading a book (or listening to a quick song depending on how fast your burner is hehe) while burning takes place.

Cheers,
Geek
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post #21 of 21
3/4/04 at 10:49pm
I've done pretty much everything short of gaming while ripping, with nary a problem. The other day I was ripping an extremely scratched Zeppelin CD (it required about 1.5 hours to rip... ran at around 0.1-0.2x for a looong time), and had Firefox (~30-50MB of RAM, and <=10% CPU usage when you're loading a webpage), Trillian (~10MB of RAM, and pretty much no CPU usage), and a few other things (Anti-Virus, IP Range blocker, Ad-Watch...) running. I've got 512MB RAM, and an Athlon XP 2000+, FYI.

(-:Stephonovich:-)
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