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Topic: What Does An Error In Audiochecker Mean Exactly (Read 7450 times) previous topic - next topic
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What Does An Error In Audiochecker Mean Exactly

I was just testing out a few of my CD rips I made with Audiochecker, just to see.

I noticed one of the songs it said ERROR. The rest were CDDAs

I always assumed if you got that message you ripped the CD wrong. So I ripped the CD again with EAC secure mode and it came up no errors, track quality 100% and accuprip also returned a match saying it was correct.

I ran it through Audiochecker and again got an ERROR message.

So I tried ripping it in Burst Mode on EAC with T&C. The T&C both matched and again accurip came back saying it was a match as well.

I ran it through Audiochecker and it said ERROR.

In both cases I ripped it to a WAV file

So what exactly does it mean when Audiochecker gives you an ERROR message on the track?

What Does An Error In Audiochecker Mean Exactly

Reply #1 –
Quote from: EricPost on
So what exactly does it mean when Audiochecker gives you an ERROR message on the track?

It means something went wrong within the software and it was unable to make a conclusion. It says nothing about the track.

This software is only made to check for audio that was transcoded from a lossy source (like mp3). (And for that purpose, it is fairly accurate but still far from perfect.) When using it on your own CD rips, it can tell you nothing about rip quality. It could only detect a fake CD, or an authentic CD where the music was mixed using lossy audio sources.

The fact that AccurateRip validated the file is enough of a guarantee that the rip was flawless.

What Does An Error In Audiochecker Mean Exactly

Reply #2 –
To complete that thought, while AccurateRip can tell you if other people ripped something exactly the same way as you, it cannot tell you if the CD was sourced from lossy material.

What Does An Error In Audiochecker Mean Exactly

Reply #3 –
Thanks for the info as usual 

What Does An Error In Audiochecker Mean Exactly

Reply #4 –
If you have an EAC Log with accurate rip results there's no need for audiochecker. If you download a lossless albun that has neither, you should use either Cue Tools or Foobar with the newest Foo Verify component and run an accurate rip test. If at this point the CD is NOT in the accurate rip database, then you should go ahead and run audio checker. Just to make sure it's a lossless rip of some sort. It probably means the person ripped the disc with Nero or Roxio or something without Error correction, without setting the read offset ect. Maybe they even used Windows media player to rip the Wavs. At least you'll know the tracks weren't transcoded from mp3's. That's what audio checker is good for, nothing else.

What you did was more or less like taking your BMW to the dealer for a check up, then you took it to Jiffy Lube to make sure BMW looked at it. If that makes sense.