[paranoia] Drive recommendation, and error correction

[James Mansion]

>interpolate' code, although that layer will have to exist soon.  At
>least one company has offered to contract the work to make cdparanoia
>capable of breaking all the 'secure CD' systems :-)

Oh good.

I know Meridian make some units that work like this, anyone else
know who does it?  I didn't think they did much 'signal processing'
on it though.

>drives wasn't a problem I'd solved.  It's not impossible or even hard,
>but I've not yet had the time to do it.
...
>damaged media.  Plextor also supports ECC reporting, so that
>near-perfect reconstruction of audio discs protected with systems like
>Cactus will be easy.

Well, I guess the bottom line is that if a special drive purchase is
necessary, then so be it.  Even better if Paranoia could eventually
recover HDCD or one of the 96kHz formats. ;-)

>Yes, yes it is.  I had thought, about a year ago, that cdparanoia
>would become unneeded soon as the general firmware quality of CD/DVDROM
>drives was improving.

Are DVD drives any better (or worse)?

They offer the theoretical possibility of maybe retrieving audio
product on them, don't they?

Presumably SACD audio data will remain somewhat problematic?

James

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