Comment on How is it possible that a laptop can read a CD flawlessly, but every other device I've tried the CD on skips at certain parts?

sizzler@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Mothra@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So… It is actually a faulty cd by general standards, especially the time of its release as I don’t think laptops were that popular, and one with a CD reader would have been an expensive rarity.

  I’m still perplexed though

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  • sizzler@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes bad cd, just the laptop cd drive can read with greater error checking (parity?) to achieve skip free playing.

    It’s scary how much is clipped away from music with compression and poor playback equipment. Sometimes the right setup really changes the song.

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    • vxx@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The issue with CDs isn’t the compression.

      CDs are getting read at a rate of 44000 times a second. Sometimes this frequency will cancel out the Digital information on the CD under circumstances that can’t be stopped. The better the correction of this naturally occurring error, the more natural the CD sounds.

      That’s a pretty bad explanation, but that’s the main reason CDs can sound way different to the LP.

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  • ook_the_librarian@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t really know. I suspect they might have error correction codes of differing sophistication. Even if that’s not right here is a cool video on Hamming codes anyway.

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