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by bscphil 1288 days ago
> My CD ripper/burner is going on twenty years old and it works flawlessly.

This is probably a good example though. The state of the art in CD ripping has advanced significantly over the last 15 years. If you care about bit-perfect rips or even just reliable error correction, it would pay to know about the advances in Exact Audio Copy (Win), XLD (Mac), or Whipper (Linux). All of these have seen releases since 2020. If you have a newer CD drive model, having an updated database in your ripping program can help you get perfect rips, as same-model drives typically have identical bit offsets. In addition, bug fixes can prevent (admittedly rare) ripping issues.
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causi 1288 days ago
Good to know if I ever hear an error in a track I ripped. Hasn't happened in two decades so far, but you never know.
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bscphil 1287 days ago
The odds of it ever being noticeable are indeed quite low.
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