I don't think I could buy it new because it was from the '87 pressings and they have since remastered Beatles CDs. It's not an uncommon disc, it's the Beatles Revolver, so no chance it wouldn't be in the database. It was a replacement CD because I lost the original, I think I left it in the CD drive of an old laptop that died. If it gets totally ruined, you just get another copy. The primary backup is your pressed CD itself. But it's over a decade I don't burn any CD anymore and CD-Rs are not the right medium for backups. I would use EAC for keeping CD images with Cue Sheets. CUERipper does a lot of good things such as repairing a spot or two - so I keep this as a secondary tool to handle these problematic CDs (some of them look pristine, the error comes with degradation of the chemicals). dBpoweramp does everything on the fly, so I switched. But it happens that I don't have sufficient lifetime to fuss over tagging, album art, file rewrites and 20 minutes ripping a CD in Secure Mode (my drive has to defeat audio data cache). Yes, there are millions of configurations and tweaks. And this can really kill your sleep, if you get too paranoid about perfect god-made rips - something always goes out of the pattern. When I start stepping this paranoia OCD I try to make a move out of it, because I realize the music no longer is the important factor or fun to mess with - but the intangible "perfect bytes" no one really cares about. The reason I made this move was the literal paranoia I was getting with EAC. I must say I am quite impressed with the software suite. Have fun testing a bunch of drive read and gap detection methods to optimize a drive. What does that even mean? You have to choose the best one to get the fastest and most reliable gap detection for you drive. Same with gap detection There are A, B, and C gap detection methods. But you have to try them to find the optimal settings for a drive. What is the difference between the MMC read command and MMC1 and MMC2 and D8? I have no idea. To find the best one you have to try each of them. You need to select the best read command for your drive to get the fastest and most reliable rips. Most people just want a free ripping program that is easy to use.ĮAC also has many options for drive read commands. You insert a CD, make sensible selections in a few drop-down menus, and click the big "Go" button to rip. It doesn't confuse people with unneeded options. I usually recommend CUERipper over EAC because CUERipper is easy to use and only has options that are proper and that you might need. Choosing the wrong options could cause you grief later. Especially options related to gap handling. If you use those options you have to know what you are doing and know why you are choosing those options. Unfortunately many of the possible combinations of options in EAC will result in sub-optimal or incorrect rips. EAC is confusing because it has so many options. EAC is powerful because it has so many options.
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