Question about ripping in another program

[krillel]

Hi!

I have ripped my cd-collection with a rather old cd-rom player.
I have ripped the cd:s in another program then dbpoweramp. The program I have used isn´t accurate rip programs. For the most files I have used an old version of Nero and Windows Media player. The files where converted to wave. After that I used a free converting program to convert the files to flac (for the most part I used Free Audio Converter).

Then I got cold feet and thought that maybe this wasn´t a smart way to rip the cd:s.
I then installed perfect tunes to check the files. Some albums the program couldn´t recognize, some tracks the program said was inaccurate. But most of the files were Accurate rip according to PerfectTunes. The Verified Confidence is all from 1-200.

I will get dbpoweramp to rip the files I have problem with. But it would save me much time if I don´t need to do this with the other albums and files.

My questions are:
1)PerfectTunes says the files are accurate ripped, even though I have used "bad" programs to rip and convert the files with. Can I be (100%) sure that there is no quality loss when I ripped and converted with these programs instead of dbpoweramp?

2)The program couldn´t find some well-known albums (like Bruce Springsteen – Human touch). I have the original cd with these albums, so that shouldn´t be a problem. Do you know the reason why!?

3)What does the “Pressing offset” stand for? Most of the time I get +6 here, but it can also be something totally different, like +1316. But there are (almost) always the same pressing offset for the same album.

Thanks in advance!

/Kristian

[garym]

Re: Question about ripping in another program

(1) Yes!

[krillel]

Re: Question about ripping in another program

Ok, thanks!

Following questions...
4) Do you get the same result with the unregisetred version and the purchased version?
5) If the program can´t read the files, can anyone recommend another program that can check for glitches and so on?
I for example have some files that has different lenghts. Maybe dbpoweramp has such a program....?

/Kristian

[Spoon]

Re: Question about ripping in another program

2) If the disc has a non-standard starting position, this information is only present on the CD and AccurateRip needs to generate the disc ID, without it a lookup has to be done and the lookup database is not populated as much. Also some programs would rip extended CDs with the wrong track length for the last track.

A pressing offset is the offset which is induced on CDs when they are manufactured, each time a pressing run is done a new offset is created.