Need Audio CD Ripping Software Recommendations

[jhwalker]

Sigh.

 

If your CRC matches even ONE other rip, the odds against your having a bad / inaccurate rip are billions to one.  It's obvious - that's just how it works.

 

All this talk about "odds" and "possible" are just that - talk.

[jhwalker]

Take a typical track ripped from a CD.  If even ONE byte (among several millions) changes in the rip, the resultant CRC will be WILDLY different; i.e., a COMPLETELY different string.  That's just how CRCs work.

 

Thus if you have a match to EVEN ONE other rip, it means the odds are literally billions to one that both are correct (or both incorrect in EXACTLY the same way, which is absurd).  To get the same CRC from two DIFFERENT rips of the same track is so wildly improbable as to defy imagination (IOW, it doesn't happen).