Thanks Richard, for speaking up with accuracy. I have given up trying to educate clients on this. Usually they want mp3s from CD, and don’t realize they could do that themslves with iTunes! But I don’t disabuse them of the notion if they want to pay me to do it. I can usually make them sound better anyway…
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Lou Judson
Intuitive Audio
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On Oct 11, 2018, at 12:08 PM, Richard L. Hess <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I'm sure that Allison already knows that the CDs are already digital and don't need to be digitized, but for any newcomers browsing the list who might ask, "What?" I just thought I'd mention this.
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> CDs are their own file system, in essence a table of contents space and streaming media, but they are not traditional files-per-track as you would arrange them in a computer. The audio is linear PCM at a sampling frequency of 44.1 kHz, 16 bits. It also has an error correction code which is removed when converting the files to file-system type files.
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> So, the data is not re-digitized, but rather reformatted, typically into one file per track for easy, CD-like access. "Ripping" is the proper word to use here (as was used in the discussion).