Ripping WAV (lossless) with WMP11 - near EAC quality?
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>In general I don't know that dbpoweramp is any faster than EAC.
If you had a CD and one track in the middle was scratched, then dBpoweramp should be much faster than EAC (if the CD is in AccurateRip) as the other tracks would rip in 1 pass and verify, EAC rips each track twice at a minimum in secure mode (unless using c2). The scratched track might rip in the same time as EAC, but then again depending on how scratched it is dBpoweramp could finish the rip early with a match from AccurateRip (by cross checking data chunks from each pass). R12 was designed to be as fast as theoretically possible whilst being secure.
I very much like what you have done with your ripper though there is nothing stopping me from ripping all my tracks in burst mode, checking the accurate rip results and re-ripping the questionable tracks again using a secure mode. This isn't much different than dBpowerAMP, correct? Yes the track in the middle might be read an additional time depending on the settings used but this would hardly result in dBpowerAMP being "much" faster.
I also want to add that with my Plextor I don't use burst mode. I actually use C2 and -usefua which gives me decent (albeit not perfect) security with burst speeds. IOW, it is possible perform rereads to get accurate data without having to read everything twice; just like dBpowerAMP when ultra-secure passes are disabled (not withstanding the use of C2 pointers during re-reads which is more a comment on dBpowerAMP's superior accuracy rather than on speed). But remember: once ultra-secure passes are disabled, dBpowerAMP isn't any better at discovering errors than EAC when C2 pointers are being used.
Point taken about cross checking data from each pass. The other great thing about dBpowerAMP over EAC is that all this ripping checking and reripping is done automatically.
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