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- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: More CD skipping...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.112648.132@janus.arc.ab.ca>
- From: erkamp@JANUS.ARC.AB.CA (Bob Erkamp)
- Date: 18 Nov 92 11:26:48 MDT
- Reply-To: erkamp@JANUS.ARC.AB.CA
- References: <1992Nov16.235544.24722@raven.alaska.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov16.235544.24722@raven.alaska.edu>, fsgab@ix.acf-lab.alaska.edu (Grant A Beaugard) writes:
- >What about near-new, unscratched CDs which skip?
- >
- >I've noticed that some of my european import CDs, especially ones from
- >small record labels, skip on some finicky players. I have domestic CDs,
- >some of which are pretty well scratched up, and they seem to work fine on
- >the same players...
- >Of course, some of my domestic CDs skip too, and they aren't scratched.
- >
- >Is this an error in encoding? A slightly different type of encoding?
- >Error-correction errors? Enquiring minds want to know.
-
- Is there any relation to total running time? I think you might find that a lot
- of the imports are quite long (70 minutes+) and that some players have
- difficulty tracking these CD's.
-
- Bob
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