[paranoia] Mono

[Bill Davidsen]

On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Jack Pistachio wrote:

> Theoretically they should be the same.  However, I would
> never expect the data to be exactly the same in a real
> world situation.  Using diff or cmp for example on data
> retrieved from just the right or left channel would always
> differ as cd anomalies would lead paranoia or cdda2wav or
> whatever is used to cause at least a single slight sample
> difference.  If the music had any slight tick, etc in it,
> this would surely be the case.  The important part is that
> there should  be no audible difference.

If the recording is mono there would *be* two channels. What you have is a
stereo recording, with the same data on both channels (more or less).
While a computer can play something other than standard 44100 sample/sec
16 bit stereo, players maynot be able to do so.

You can do a mix for wav or mp3, but paranoia duplicates what's on the CD,
regardless of the desirability of doing that.


-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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