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Rip CDs at Mach 2 on a Mac Pro
Authored by: Electricbacfac on Oct 27, '06 03:47:17PM

The bit about data on the rings of cd's is incorrect. As you proberbly know, they read centre out. However the shorter rings at the centre contain exactly the same amout of data as the longer outer rings.



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Rip CDs at Mach 2 on a Mac Pro
Authored by: kirkmc on Oct 28, '06 12:12:19AM

Sorry, that's totally wrong. The pits and grooves are the same size across the disc. So, just like on LPs, there is a different amount of "data" where the circumference is shorter. Since CDs are read from the middle out, there is less data per "ring" at the beginning than at the end.

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