Nov 22, 2022 20:00:00

List of 'optical drives with high CD ripping accuracy' useful for ripping music CDs

Music subscription services are widespread in the world, but some artists have not lifted the ban on subscriptions, and people who value sound quality are listening to music by ripping CDs. However, when ripping audio data from a CD, it is said that errors will occur in the data due to scratches and dirt on the CD, vibration of the optical drive, etc. Therefore, for those who perform CD ripping, 'Highly accurate optical drive list for CD ripping' is published on the audio blog PILABOR .

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Data errors are unavoidable in CD ripping, but the CD drive will compensate for minor errors, so accuracy is not so important if you are just listening to music. However, errors cannot be corrected 100%, and the sound quality will inevitably deteriorate. Therefore, it is important to know how accurately the CD audio data can be ripped locally, especially for those who rip CDs with a focus on sound quality.

Mr. Andreas Fürich, the operator of PILABOR, said that he found a ``list of optical drives with high CD ripping accuracy'' on the forum of dBpoweramp , a CD ripping software, and added some information. I published the sorted list.

Among the lists published by Mr. Furich, the optical drives listed in the top 1 to 20 are as follows. From the left, the manufacturer name (Manufacturer), optical drive type (Type), model (Model), accuracy (Accuracy%) is in order, and the most accurate is Hitachi LG data storage (HL-DT- ST) BD-RE drive ' BH14NS48 ' had an accuracy of 99.7763%. 2nd place is also HL-DT-ST BD-RE drive ' BH14NS40 ' with 99.4937%, 3rd place is Hewlett-Packard (hp) DVD-RW drive 'GUE1N' with 99.4620%, 4th place is MATSHITA (Panasonic) . The DVD-RAM drive ' UJ8B0AW ' is 99.4398%, and the 5th place is also Panasonic's BD-CMB drive 'UJ160' with 99.4264%. You can sort by each item on the original site.

Manufacturer	Drive type	model	Accuracy(%)
HL-DT-ST	BD-RE	BH14NS48	99.7763
HL-DT-ST	BD-RE	BH14NS40	99.4937
HP	DVD-RW	GUE1N	99.4620
MATSHITA	DVD-RAM	UJ8B0AW	99.4398
MATSHITA	BD-CMB	UJ160	99.4264
MATSHITA	DVD-R	UJ-85J	99.4120
PIONEER	BD-RW	BDR-S09	99.3739
MATSHITA	DVD-R	UJ-898	99.3504
PIONEER	BD-RW	BDR-208M	99.3126
Slimtype	DVDs	A DS8A4SH	99.3002
MATSHITA	DVD-RAM	UJ8G6	99.2898
Slimtype	BDs	E DS6E2SH	99.2687
HL-DT-ST	DVD+-RW	GT30N	99.2542
ASUS	No classification	BC-12D2HT	99.2535
HL-DT-ST	DVD-RAM	GT51N	99.2524
ATAPI	No classification	iHES208 2	99.2017
MATSHITA	DVD-RAM	UJ-812	99.1925
PIONEER	BD-RW	BDR-207M	99.1705
PIONEER	BD-RW	BDR-XD04	99.1439
HP	BDDVDRW	CH20L	99.1347

Looking at the list, we can see that the newer optical drives are not necessarily more accurate, and that they are a mix of old and new. ``Some of the optical drives listed are no longer available or are very expensive,'' said Furich. increase.

Mr. Furich points out that it is not so important to use the most accurate optical drive, and that the optical drive that is already at hand may support sufficient functions. If you want to rip CDs as accurately as possible, Windows users are advised to use the multifunctional ripper Exact Audio Copy (EAC) and follow the guide to set it up.