[How To] CD playback

[TheOldPresbyope]

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Not sure at the moment if SQ from my external USB drive (Samsung SE-5084) is bit perfect or how error correction (if any) is handled but initial listening SQ is excellent.
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The drive is the first line of defense for error correction. One might expect newer drives to be better at it than older ones, but market forces may negate that as drives get cheaper and cheaper. I have no idea what might be a "best" drive for this use. A stiff power source is always a plus.

The man page for cdparanoia, which I believe is based on the same library used by MPD in CD playback, talks about "extra-robust data verification, synchronization, error handling and scratch reconstruction capability." I have no idea how good this claim is nor the resources to test it.

Thanks for confirming the install process worked for you. At the time of my post, install.sh was missing the needed cdparanoia package. Quickly fixed but shouldn't have happened. 


Regards,
Kent