| Glathannus |
2009.03.04 12:21 AM |
"Ripping" can be done faster than realtime. You are talking about recording the content as it plays. Record-as-it-plays is how some people think they are "breaking" DRM - which is an extremely dirty practice for content that is already lossy, because recording leads to transcoding. This stance of mine isn't specific to "hating Apple as much as possible" because I cringe whenever people record-as-it-plays on Windows too, especially when people on Windows have more options they'd rather not know about.
I had a complete & straight audio rip of Zazen Ecstasy with each of the songs divided into their own tracks, before I had even played the DVD. It took me maybe 15 minutes, and 5 of that was to name & tag everything. I am certain that if I had to go through it again, that I would produce the exact same rip twice (with the filehashes to prove it). A ripping method has to be consistent, testable, and proven - in order for me to take it seriously. I'd sooner buy a thousand lottery tickets than bet any amount on record-as-it-plays producing any consistent duplications.
If you have an Intel Mac, the "hours of your life" you lose from setting it up for Bootcamp would be less than waiting for everything to play that you ever wanted to 'rip'.
When multimedia has to be "processed" in no faster or slower than realtime, I have very little faith that the copy would ever be exactly the same as the original. It's like a step back to some of the things that could go wrong in the days of analog.
Currently Listening To:
Yasunori Mitsuda - Nephilim
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