What do the numbers in parentheses after accurate / inacurate means under the Rip Status column?
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How many matches in the database to your rip. Note that I think it stops counting after 200 (so that is the max number). So Accurate (27), means that 27 other users ripped same CD with identical AR numbers. Inaccurate (18) means that your rip's AR numbers are different from 18 other users who ripped same CD.
Importantly, this number does NOT represent the quality of the rip. That is, Accurate(200) is no better quality or better perfect rip than Accurate (2). In both cases, your rip shows identical CRC as other users. The fact that your CRC, using a different copy of the CD and a different computer/drive, matches 2 other users means that the it is effectively impossible that you don't have a bit perfect rip. Some will question an AR(1) result, but only because a single database AR could have come from you, if you ripped the same CD twice. Thus, many folks like to see at least AR(2) for confirmation. But agqin, if YOU have never ripped the CD, then even AR(1) documents a bitperfect rip.
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