I’ve had this CD for ages. Decades. It would always skip at a certain parts on two of its tracks. I’ve never in my life heard the full CD because of this reason, always having to skip forward to the next track.
I’ve listened to it on at least four different devices, among them a very large Sony home stereo system. I’ve always thought the CD was faulty.
But today, I ripped the CD on a cheap old laptop and guess what. For the first time in my life I heard the whole uninterrupted tracks. What is this sorcery? Can someone explain?
sizzler@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Cd drives in computers are more technical than standard stereo players due to their nature of writing to cds. Think higher quality, more accurate equipment.
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
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.
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.