[maxmsp] [somewhat ot] Importing Audio from CD

Hi,

I use this:

http://sbooth.org/Max/

And it's called MAX !

All the best

-- 
Alessandro Fogar

http://www.fogar.it

2007/8/8, kevin parks <kp8 at mac.com>:
> Greetings maxers,
>
> This is somewhat off topic, as it isn't a 100% max specific query, so
> let me apologize in advance.... However, i know folks here know their
> stuff when it comes to digital audio and i am desperate for an answer.
>
> I always ask folks who send me audio files to work with, to send them
> as data because i have noticed that when you rip from an audio CD
> using iTunes you sometimes get drop outs even if you have the:
>
> [Use error correction when reading Audio CDs]
>
> option checked off in Preferences --> Advanced
>
> Now i have some Audio CDs that i need to integrate into an archive
> (the data is gone and all i have are the audio cds to work with) and
> i have to be absolutely 100% certain that i have yanked all of the
> audio off the CD w/o dropouts or any other data loss...
>
> I am not at all sure how to do this...
>
> The only thing i can think of is to rip the audio several times and
> compare it and if it is the same then (under the crazy assumption
> that the rip would not drop data in the same place twice) .... but
> then i have to rip it several times which would take a LOT of time
> and a LOT of disk space... and then of course i would have to compare
> the soundfiles while ignoring the header ... ugh.. and the only way i
> can think to do this is to load both soundfiles in to a DAW, invert
> the phase of one and mix.... and then do an amp plot and check that
> each sample has summed to 0. ... you can see why i don't want to do
> this as i have dozens of CDs to archive....
>
> so is there any fail-safe way to yank audio from CDs?
>
> I am on a Mac, intel... os 10.4... I indeed have Max and Peak and
> Garbage band (i guess)....
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated...
>
> cheers,
>
> kevin
>
>
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