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- From: jeh@cmkrnl.com
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: More CD skipping...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.103254.881@cmkrnl.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 18:32:54 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.235544.24722@raven.alaska.edu>
- Organization: Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego, CA
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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.
-
- This is due to small differences in the track pitch between European and
- domestic CD mastering plants. CD players and disks intended for the U.S.
- market are set up based on the Engligh system of measurements, while European
- ones go by metric-based standards. You can often get a metric CD to play on an
- English player, or vice versa, but it's like trying to use an SAE socket wrench
- on the head of a metric-sized bolt... it just doesn't fit very well.
-
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- --- Jamie Hanrahan, Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego CA
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