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Testing DVD-R and CD-R 25 years later: optical disks from Japan

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176 points csdvrx | 2 comments | 01 Apr 25 21:46 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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LiquidPolymer ◴[02 Apr 25 00:48 UTC] No.43552743[source]▶
I also thought this was a longevity test.

I do love optical media and have a considerable CD, DVD, minidisc, and blu-ray collection. Like a Luddite, I still enjoy burning my own.

I especially like my Superscope disc copier. It completely disregards copy protection and I frequently make a backup of my favorite CDs which I store. Although much of my stock are older blanks (like those listed in this article)I’ll be sad if CD-R disappears from the market.

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Teever ◴[02 Apr 25 03:29 UTC] No.43553387[source]▶
Could you recommend a usb CD drive for ripping audio CDs? A local library that I frequent has an extensive jazz collection and I'd like to rip it before they remove it, as I think it's just a matter of time before they do so.
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1. jogu ◴[02 Apr 25 03:42 UTC] No.43553464[source]▶
Any drive will be capable of ripping just fine. If you really want to get into the nitty gritty finding a drive with well known read offsets and the ability to defeat the drive cache is a good bet so you can compare against the accuraterip database.

https://www.accuraterip.com/driveoffsets.htm

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2. rahimnathwani ◴[03 Apr 25 01:54 UTC] No.43563853[source]▶
Not all CD-ROM drives, even those that can play audio, can be used to rip digital audio. Some only have an analogue audio output for playing CDs. I know at least some IDE CD-ROM drives can't read digital audio.

It might be true that all SATA drives can read digital audio.