A minor issue/annoyance came up today (or serious depending on how you look at things). Today I did a re-rip of this album that I already ripped, just because. Since I'm a bit anal/OCD, I thought I'd compare the rips, even though in theory, they should be the same and they were ripped using the same disc drive and program.
First, I checked the EAC logs of the old and new one. Both of them were accurately ripped but both had different database IDs (see below).
Second, after adding both rips to the playlist, I noticed that each track had a time difference of 1 to 2 seconds (e.g. old track 1 had a time of 3:33, new track 1 was 3:31).
Thirdly, listening to the tracks themselves, there was a sound volume difference (i.e. one was quieter, one was louder).
Fourthly, the total file size of the album was different (i.e. one had a slightly larger total file size).
Fifthly and finally, I checked the inner circle of the discs and mystery solved I guess: one had the HBMC-009 1 text. The other one had HBMC-009-U 1. My best guess is that the "U" stands for update.
The differences are summarised below:
HBMC-009 1
CTDB TOCID: FiAnF9vaqt5dQZ212qJrbJx0S2c-
Individual track lengths:
3:31 - 01 Time goes by...
3:31 - 02 Cyber Space 303
4:47 - 03 Sledge Hammer
3:30 - 04 Rambling feather
4:41 - 05 Relieve
4:56 - 06 Tensional field
4:06 - 07 Rapid Fire
3:40 - 08 Catch The Tomorrow
3:53 - 09 Demons Carnival
3:53 - 10 Engage
3:46 - 11 KUSANAGI
4:48 - 12 Amitto
4:54 - 13 Wail of soul
4:47 - 14 Survive
Total disc length: 58:43
.wav Total File Size: 592 MB (621,453,112 bytes)
.flac Total File Size (Level 5): 401 MB (420,502,043 bytes)
Sound volume compared to other: Quieter
HBMC-009-U 1
CTDB TOCID: sXKoiqD1g9zpJxAMlbW3jYjUZp0-
Individual track lengths:
3:33 - 01 Time goes by...
3:33 - 02 Cyber Space 303
4:49 - 03 Sledge Hammer
3:32 - 04 Rambling feather
4:42 - 05 Relieve
4:56 - 06 Tensional field
4:08 - 07 Rapid Fire
3:41 - 08 Catch The Tomorrow
3:55 - 09 Demons Carnival
3:55 - 10 Engage
3:48 - 11 KUSANAGI
4:49 - 12 Amitto
4:56 - 13 Wail of soul
4:49 - 14 Survive
Total disc length: 59:06
.wav Total File Size: 596 MB (625,597,336 bytes)
.flac Total File Size (Level 5): 440 MB (461,474,423 bytes)
Sound volume compared to other: Louder
There's nothing wrong with either rip but the info is presented as above regardless.
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