Data corruption is one thing, but calling it “noise” is tremendously misleading because that’s such an issue when digitising from an analogue source. I can’t say I’ve ever experienced it due to the drive, but I have experienced it with scratched CDs. I’ve been using optical drives since the '90s and it’s so rare that bringing it up is really muddying the waters.
With regards to sourcing audio, the emphasis was on “easiest”. Most people haven’t had optical drives in their computers in a long time. Ultimately they’d probably be better off finding something on Wikimedia in PCM as their “known good”. Ripping audio isn’t difficult for you and me but we’re clearly nerdier than most!
Scratched discs are definitely a big problem, but I’ve had some bad drives in my time, where even good discs would get issues. I don’t really have a better shorthand for the issue that’s more descriptive than noise.
And you’re right, I just tend to assume a very high level of nerdiness of anyone on lemmy/kbin/mbin.
Data corruption is one thing, but calling it “noise” is tremendously misleading because that’s such an issue when digitising from an analogue source. I can’t say I’ve ever experienced it due to the drive, but I have experienced it with scratched CDs. I’ve been using optical drives since the '90s and it’s so rare that bringing it up is really muddying the waters.
With regards to sourcing audio, the emphasis was on “easiest”. Most people haven’t had optical drives in their computers in a long time. Ultimately they’d probably be better off finding something on Wikimedia in PCM as their “known good”. Ripping audio isn’t difficult for you and me but we’re clearly nerdier than most!
Scratched discs are definitely a big problem, but I’ve had some bad drives in my time, where even good discs would get issues. I don’t really have a better shorthand for the issue that’s more descriptive than noise.
And you’re right, I just tend to assume a very high level of nerdiness of anyone on lemmy/kbin/mbin.
Whilst it’s a fair assumption usually, I think that the fact that they had to ask is indicative.
As for “noise”, what’s wrong with “data corruption”? A noisy recording and a corrupt recording sound nothing alike.