Re: Question of the day: iTunes + Watermarking?

["Dave Korn" <dave.korn () artimi com>]

On 11 July 2006 20:31, Michael Spath wrote:

> On 7/10/06, Steve Tornio <steve () vitriol net> wrote:
>
> > I followed the exact same procedure, on my PowerBook
> > and a co-worker's Mac Mini, and received identical results.
> > I don't know why the resulting hash is different from yours.
>
> Extracting the same audio track with different drives often give
> different files, although with the same size. If both extraction
> went fine, the same data will be in the file, but shifted and
> padded with zeroes. This comes from the fact that the CD-DA
> Red Book does not clearly specifies where audio starts, thus
> different drive manufacturers did implement different drive
> offsets (both on reading and writing).


  We're not talking about ripping audio from CDs.  We're talking about
converting iTunes files to WAVs.  No ambiguity about where _they_ start and
end.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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