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The easy way to deal with this "hanging" issue, is just killing the vlc process by hand via task manager. This is what I always do every time.

Besides the vlc method mentined earlier in this thread, can you be more specific about what you are looking for in a flac->mp3 conversion program ?

The only way to know how exactly the disc ID string is calculated, is to find less popular cd discs in one's collection and see how the id string calculation matches to that in gnudb. (GNUDB entires accessed via the www web, are cataloged explicitly by the cd id string in the url). The problem...

There is the gnudb which appears to still be available. It uses the same interrogation disc id string format as the older cddb and freedb: xxyyyyzz xx = sum of starting times of all tracks (mod 255) yyyy = length of disc zz = number of tracks (These digits are in hexadecimal)...

The question is how exactly are particular databases interrogated. If you know what the format of the "send string" is to a particular database.

I had discs of this type, where they played fine on my standalone audio cd player. In contrast, they were hellish to rip in a secure mode on EAC, or wouldn't rip at all. For a large batch of such nasty unrippable discs, it turned out they were all manufactured at the same cd pressing facility...

For that matter, the data rate through a computer cd/dvd drive is low enough to go through a USB2 port easily without hitting any usb2 bottlenecks. IIRC the fastest data rate at a maximum constant angular velocity of a spinning disc, is around 22 megabytes per second when the laser is reading...

Very good point here ^ !!! In terms of "industrial caliber" hard drives, I would look for something which is commonly used in cable service DVR type machines. Basically something which can withstand the punishment of being written to for hours and hours every day, from folks who record tons of...

I did it once manually back in the day via the procedure with "key discs". http://www.accuraterip.com/keydiscs.htm It should be easier nowadays.

In VLC: - go to Media -> Open Multiple Files - drag and drop your *.flac files into the "File Selection" box - hit the arrow on the right side of the "Play" key (next to the "Cancel" key) and go down the menu to "Convert" - in the convert box, change the "Settings" to Profile "Audio - MP3" by...

AccurateRip is highly dependent on knowing the correct drive offset. Otherwise there is no easy way to do an apples-to-apples comparison of ripped files.

For the most part. Ripping is only really for the hardcore crowd nowadays. For Joe Sixpack and/or Jane Q Public, there are much easier ways of consuming music/tv/movies which does not involve handling any optical discs. Easier to just subscribe to a flat rate vod streaming service.

From googling mac superdrive, over the years it appears apple just rebadged various dvd drives manufactured by other companies over the years such as NEC, Sony, LG, etc ..... (ie. The "Apple" or "Mac" brand name is just a facade, while the underlying dvd drive is something else). Especially...

In hindsight, this was also the "fatal" decision which made formats like dvd and bluray easily crackable. Software dvd and bluray players on computers, are much easier to reverse engineer. In contrast, proprietary hardware-only formats are orders of magnitude harder to crack. (For example...

For the most part. If one wants to know all the gory technical details, google up the ecma 130 document. (ECMA 130 is the public information revealed about the "yellow book" cdrom format. IIRC, the actual real "yellow book" costs big $$$ to get back in the day). The cdrom format basically...

Here is a database of drive offsets. http://www.accuraterip.com/driveoffsets.htm If you find your particular drive in that list, then there is a good chance it might have "accurate stream".

What is your cd/dvd drive model? Unless something was poorly designed back in 2006-7, sata vs usb2 shouldn't really matter.

It it highly dependent on the particular computer cd/dvd drive model. Even back in the day, some drives had an "accurate stream" feature where seek jitter problems are minimized or almost eliminated. If you're familiar with cdrom drive terminology, "accurate stream" drives have the same drive...

(On a tangent). Heh. Is this one of the pioneer models? Back in the day, I always wanted one of those giant cd changers, but never got around to buying one.

If you're the type of person who is extremely paranoid about demanding absolute data accuracy, the only other option I can think of is to write your computer code. You can start off by looking at the source codes for open source cd ripper programs like cdda2wav or cdparanoia...

It basically boils down to how hardcore you are about absolute data accuracy, when ripping redbook audio cds. If you're dealing with audio cds which are not damaged/defective/rotting, the main problem will be jitter and compounded with how a cdrom drive's cache system functions...

Recently I purchased an audiobook which turned out to consist of over a dozen audio cd discs (ie. standard redbook audio cd at 44.1 kHz 16 bits). Ripping all these dozen+ audio cd discs to the computer, the size of the *.wav files in total was around 10 gigabytes. I converted them into *.flac...

Looking more closely at the FLAC header spec and looking at the *.flac file I produced in this wav (original) -> flac -> wav (second) round trip chain via VLC, a hex dump of this *.flac file reveals that VLC is encoding wav -> flac data in 4608 bytes sized blocks...

Looking more closely at the *.wav file specifiction, the header differences I saw corespond exactly to the file size differences. (One wav file had additional zeros padding at the tail end of the file). https://www.topherlee.com/software/pcm-tut-wavformat.html...

For amusement, I decided to see how "lossless" *.flac really is. I took some *.wav files I haven't deleted yet, and using VLC converted them in a round trip chain of: wav (original) -> flac -> wav (second) Comparing the data of the original and second wav files to see how much they differ...

This brickwalling can be done all the way back to the mixing stage in the production, entirely and deliberately. Even years/decades before brickwalling was a standard feature, elements of compression + peak limiting were done in the studio. For example, the electric bass guitar is frequently...

My car stereo only knows how to read FAT32. It will not read flash drives formatted to exFAT. (Nor NTFS formatted flash drives).

The only flash drives I have which are formatted in the factory as FAT32, are older low capacity ones (ie. 16 gigabytes). More current flash drives I have purchased over the past few years (ie. 64+ gigabytes or larger), are formatted as exFAT at the factory.

Somebody else also notice this, in a report at the loudnesswar database for the american release of the morning glory cd. http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/75126

From what I've read about this Oasis album over the decades, I get the impression this primitive early brickwalling in 1995 was an artistic decision they came across by happenstance or chance. They probably were not thinking about dynamic range at all, and just liked how it sounded.