CdexYesterday’s post about CD ripping introduced one of my favourite ripping applications, CDex. This is 100% free software, and does an admirable job that’s good enough for most of us. It’s especially good for ripping CDs in new or near-new condition, and plays very well with the freedb database (so you don’t have to worry […]

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photo by RW PhotoBug (CC)Most of us have a good chunk of money invested in CDs. But it’s not so much the circular piece of plastic… it’s the music that’s on it. The music is the main reason we shell out thirty-odd dollars to grab the latest and greatest tunes, and the packaging is secondary.
I’m […]

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You’ve probably heard that you clean CDs from the centre outwards, and not in an arc.
Here’s why.
Audio CDs have error correction. Technically it’s called Cross-Interleaved Reed-Solomon Code, or CIRC for short.
There are two levels of error correction, C1 and C2. C1 corrects bit errors, and C2 corrects frame errors. An audio CD frame hold 192 […]

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