Quote Originally Posted by Johnisis View Post
Yes, I compared two .wav files in real time and not in real time and of course, the one made in real time has slightly more details. This is based on what me and several friends hear in good speakers. I'll try with md5sum, thank you
I've asked you if you did a comparison of the digital content of the files, not an audio test. Ripping a CD is nothing more and nothing less than a digital read out of the data which is stored on the CD. As long as the data can be read without errors, it doesn't matter if you read out the data in real time or faster. So the files of a real time read out and a faster read out are identical bit for bit, as long as no read errors occur. dBpa takes care about the error messages produced by the drives, checks the results for multiple reads and compares the results with an online database.

Can you explain why the content of a music file should depend on the read out speed of a CD drive, while any other file type (i.e. a word file) does not?


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