Weird Confidence Number

[PedroT99]

I had a weird thing happen one of my discs...It's fine but piqued my curiosity.

On all of the discs I have ripped so far, the confidence numbers for the tracks have been close somtimes off by one or 2 but close.

On the last disc I ripped (a pretty common mainstream album), all of the confidences were 25, 26 or 27 except the last track which was a 2. I know even a 2 means that it was a good rip. But why would it be so different than the rest? Isn't that peculiar?

[garym]

Re: Weird Confidence Number

I had a weird thing happen one of my discs...It's fine but piqued my curiosity.

On all of the discs I have ripped so far, the confidence numbers for the tracks have been close somtimes off by one or 2 but close.

On the last disc I ripped (a pretty common mainstream album), all of the confidences were 25, 26 or 27 except the last track which was a 2. I know even a 2 means that it was a good rip. But why would it be so different than the rest? Isn't that peculiar?

I think this has to do with AR1, AR2, offsets, best matches, etc. Not sure of the technical details, but maybe Spoon or Porcus can chime in....

[Porcus]

Re: Weird Confidence Number

maybe Spoon or Porcus can chime in....

Have seen partial explanations, but not so much that I think they could ever explain this 2 vs 25. I have encountered similar things myself, so I have from time to time bugged the forum about it.


Spoon, have you perchance once upon a time purged a lot of last-track submissions in order to guard against false verifications?

[Spoon]

Re: Weird Confidence Number

Even if we did not purge, you would not get false verification with 4:1 billion odds.

[Porcus]

Re: Weird Confidence Number

Even if we did not purge, you would not get false verification with 4:1 billion odds.

If there were consistent errors, they would produce consistent results. So what is then the likely explanation for this 25 to 2?

[Spoon]

Re: Weird Confidence Number

A consistent error is only consistent to your disc and your drive...

I would have to see a complete log before commenting.

[Gbeer7]

Re: Weird Confidence Number

So a result from 25 to 2 would be a concern Spoon ? The fact it is at least 2 is good enough ?

[Gbeer7]

Re: Weird Confidence Number

Spoon, is this something to be concerned about, a result of 25 to 2? Or the fact it is at least "2" shows that it is a "perfect" rip and that its highly unlikely to have an error ?

[Spoon]

Re: Weird Confidence Number

I have already said, I cannot comment on this instance without seeing logs, talking of 25, or 2 means nothing without seeing the log.