I have no reason to big up the item for a review, it's unpaid and have done this purely for my own research. Simple thing would be for me to send anyone unsure some sample files via Dropbox I guess, although it would be better if it was a sample of something you've ripped yourself so you know the validity of the inferior file. I can back it up with science, I've told you the CD drive has done the error correction before A'rip see's the data, which is what always happens. A'rip is comparing data that's already had errors corrected by the drives of those who've ripped it, hence whilst it's better than nothing, it's not really that valid. This is something you can check if you look into it. Going back to Spoon's example of Program files not working if errors etc, think of the irony - there's no special ripping programs for data files, as not needed. Music data is stored differently, hence why DBPA exists. I'm going to leave this here now as clearly not on everyone's wavelength. However, hopefully others will spot the thread in future and test for themselves. I wish there had been some online references when I first Googled this, prior to ripping my collection with a cheap drive as it would have saved me 2 weeks of re-ripping! If someone wants to PM me their email address, I'm happy to DropBox some files across anyway