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Question On Burned CDs...

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Playmaker

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I like to rip my own MP3s using EAC+LAME and my friend has a CD that may or may not be the copy of the real CD. He burned it from a friend's burned CD which MIGHT have been burned from the real copy. Is there anyway to check whether or not the CD he has is original or whether it was burned from low quality MP3s via a program like Nero or EZCD Creator? Thanks...
 
Actually you can test it by playing it with some software that can download song names from the net (like windows media player 7).
If it's successfull it's probably an exact copy if not it's either a custom cd or some exotic group/artist...
 
Are you sure about that? I've downloaded full CDs in MP3 format off of IRC and burned them to CDs with Nero and Windows Media Player recognizes it as the real CD.
 
As I understand the system when WMP or other software checks a cd then goes online to a database to get the names it's doing it by track totals/times.

For example, if you have a CD with 10 tracks, 1) 4:31 2) 2:02 3) and so on the player just goes by that. Every once in a blue moon you'll get the software asking you if it's "Eminem, 8 Mile Soundrack" or "Gordon Lightfoot, Sundown" because they happen to have the same number of tracks with the same length songs. But it doesn't happen very often at all, most have probably never run into it. Not sure if all the databases work that way, but anyway, that wouldn't be a way to verify the content on the CD.
 
McCarthy is right.

I've actually copied some vinyl albums to CD, and put the track breaks in the same place on the CD, and I was really surprised to see the database pick the correct artist/title.

And I'm sure we can agree that my "ripped" LPs are not the same as an original CD.

The only way to check if it's original is to use a checksum generator like md5 to compare the checksum of an original CD with your copy. That's the ONLY way.
 
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