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I think it would be pretty cool if there were some advanced features in the CD ripper for evaluating drive performance in Audio ripping.
I see the best way of doing this as having a personal group of problematic discs. These discs would need to be in AR with a high confidence. Some tracks should be easily ripped by most drives, some ripped by some drives, and others virtually un-rippable.
By testing the same discs in multiple drives the Drive Eval Mode would tell you many things. After the same track is read in multiple drives all frames with possible C2 errors should be identified. How well do different drives report all the real c2 errors? How often do the miss errors? How often do they give false errors? Are they able to re-through problematic tracks without multiple re-reads?
Of course there is also HTOA, over-reading, cache disabling, accurate-stream, etc...
What else could we look at?
I see the best way of doing this as having a personal group of problematic discs. These discs would need to be in AR with a high confidence. Some tracks should be easily ripped by most drives, some ripped by some drives, and others virtually un-rippable.
By testing the same discs in multiple drives the Drive Eval Mode would tell you many things. After the same track is read in multiple drives all frames with possible C2 errors should be identified. How well do different drives report all the real c2 errors? How often do the miss errors? How often do they give false errors? Are they able to re-through problematic tracks without multiple re-reads?
Of course there is also HTOA, over-reading, cache disabling, accurate-stream, etc...
What else could we look at?