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Sound Forge vs. EAC

Reply #25 –
Quote from: greynol on
Only so long as you decide to continue to point out fallacies where none exist, then yes; otherwise I see no reason to defend sound reasoning.


As far as I know, I stopped pointing out fallacies. In fact I pointed out one single fallacy and just once. But, if you feel better, I apologize for any inconvenient comment, and I also hope not to fall again in the same mistake.

Speaking of the right matter, I see this way too complicated for me at first glance. I feel like ripping a CD is something like launching a rocket into space. So I'll take some time to learn more about all this and then I'll continue my tests.

Have a happy day. And sorry again.

Sound Forge vs. EAC

Reply #26 –
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I feel like ripping a CD is something like launching a rocket into space. So I'll take some time to learn more about all this and then I'll continue my tests.

Good call. It's not THAT hard, but you're right, if you care about doing it "securely", it takes a bit of learning and tinkering to get it right.

Sound Forge vs. EAC

Reply #27 –
Setting up to do testing for this topic is quite easy, actually.  If you wish to compare the programs on equal footing you tell EAC to rip in burst mode.  This is accomplished by changing one setting which I identified early on in this discussion.  Which program produces the least audible errors should be random, which is why the same track should be ripped several times.

If you wish to compare secure rips in EAC against rips done in Sound Forge, then you may elect to do a set with C2 pointers and a set without (assuming your drive is capable of providing them).  It could be that Sound Forge does a better job (I was never suggesting this isn't possible), just that you have to do it with a large enough sample base for the results to have any significance.

Sound Forge vs. EAC

Reply #28 –
Quote from: pdq on
The reason that EAC was slower was that you ripped in secure mode. Since AccurateRip verified the results, you could just as well have ripped in burst mode in much less time.



dBpoweramp will do this automatically in secure mode. I don't know if EAC 1.0 will do this but Andre has announced that it will be in testing (and may already be).

Sound Forge vs. EAC

Reply #31 –
I just want to point out that Sony's SoundForge is a $65 software, and has not proven to do anything better than EAC.
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