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Re:Tell HN: Amazon.com is limiting purchases of Audio CDs to... by blacklion on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @04:19AM (#31165171)
> and it only takes a couple minutes to rip a high-quality version.

Which drive do you use? My specially-selected-for-the-task drive (selected 10 year ago, to be honest, and I don't know what I will do when it dies, all modern drives looks to be crap) with firmware tuned for audio grabbing takes ~1.1x to grab CD, so 45 minutes CD will be grabbed in 1h20m (because you need check pass, of course, to have high-quality version!).

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Re:Tell HN: Amazon.com is limiting purchases of Audio CDs to... by dsr_ on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @07:20AM (#31166077)
On a well-made, new-out-of-the-box CD, a modern cheap drive should have no problems ripping at 48x with full CDparanoia checking.

It is much more likely that you will be getting a loudness-war mastering problem than a bad copy of the data. That you can only fix with better source data.

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Re:Tell HN: Amazon.com is limiting purchases of Audio CDs to... by blacklion on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @03:56PM (#31252790)
It is completely opposite to my experience, Exact Audio Copy with Secure (not Paranoid) mode, with enabled "defeat audio cache" feature grabs modern new CD on proven SATA LiteOn drive slightly faster than realtime, and slim USB attached drive could spent 3-4x time (0.25x) and fail at the end!

And, yes, old Audio CD (new old stock, 10-15 years old) can be grabbed at 6-8x speed. Looks like new Audio CD pressed much worse than old ones.

I don't believe in 48x exact extraction, sorry.

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