There's a dollar sign "?" that has no rollover text and goes to the same page.Ģc. There's a question mark "?" that has rollover text "Get local help," but it goes out to the internet ().Ģb. Application shut down (disappeared) during the first minute of trying to convert "The Sound of Music." I heard the DVD drive working for about 30 seconds, then poof! Maybe it's a DRM problem? Maybe it didn't like that I blanked out the "Author" box?Ģa. This is my first, with caveats: Maybe it only pertains to my configuration maybe it's user error.ġ. The 312 byte less in the cd-rom specs are mostly for stronger ECC codes) so a CLEAN disc is a must because a compressed DATA track - think it as a ZIP file, to have an idea - can be trashed by a single byte that is not correct, while AUDIO can be interpolated.Ĭonverting it as a entire single file ensure that you start right with the DTS identifier at the begin and process everything correctly without losing stuff in the process.īTW, dts-cd sometimes is a PITA (too many times without "sometimes"), but hey, if it wasn't for dts-cd the vast majority of the digital quad revolution of the last 20 years wouldn't had happened at all.Wow, I've never before given a negative comment. Also, since it is a DATA track into a AUDIO frame, the ECC circuit is less strict than a proper CD-ROM (frame of cd-audio: 2352 byte frame of cd-rom: 2048 byte. Many times on the track change the alignment of the dts identifier stream is not at the very begin but further on, thus static noise, clipping and so on. As i said above, dts-cd is a confusing format by definition, born to push the redbook cd-audio format into something it wasn't designed to - putting a compressed multichannel DATA track into a AUDIO formatted disc in order to play it in any AUDIO player with a DIGITAL out to connect to a DIGITAL DECODER. I always recommend to rip and convert a dts cd as a entire single file, then when it's converted to flac use the cuesheeet to split into tracks. using the exact same converters with the data stream) in both systems, the results would be identical. I fully expect that if I were able to compare apples to apples (ie. using a stand alone hardware player, the sound quality increased by magnitudes as you would expect. So back to your question, when I switched to more pro gear with ripping the disc vs. It's analog outputs were unbalanced rca jacks.Ī couple years later DVDAE came along and I was finally able to rip the discs and listen to them with my Apogee converters in full pro quality. It had no digital output capabilities for surround program. Clearly a consumer level machine but high end enough to be reasonable (or so I thought at the time). Years ago I picked up a Dennon DVD-3800 when DVDA first hit the store shelves. I have no direct way of A/B-ing the ripped file with the disc directly of course. Same with the MLP compression used on DVDA - it really works like they say it does. I verified the lossless-ness of flac a number of years ago for myself - converting back and forth, subtracting the results and getting perfect null every time. I've pulled tracks into a DAW before for examination.
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