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In the Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player

Post Subject: Extracting data from a CDPosted by manisandher on: 2/24/2009

As I mentioned in a previous post, I use EAC with a Plextor drive (with the cache bypassed) to extract data from a CD.

I have now made a consistent observation that I thought some of you would be interested in:

If I extract a new CD that has never been played before, I get a faster extraction speed than if it has been played before. This is true, even if a CD has been played just once (and has no observable scratches, fingerprints etc).

Furthermore, the 'audiophile' CD treatments that I have (bought in the days when I thought they actually improved the sound!) all slow the extraction speeds.

These results may only apply when bypassing the cache - I don't have the time or inclination to experiment using the cache.

For those of you with a Plextor, I highly recommend bypassing the cache. Do this by including '-usefua' in the command-line...

Mani.

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