Charles Mingus, Kenny Dorham, Freddie Hubbard for RSD 2025

[Dave Garrett]

On 6/2/2025 at 7:16 PM, Kevin Bresnahan said:

A CD player plays discs in a single pass, correcting any errors "on the fly". If it can't correct it, playback is affected. Many disc drives in computers re-read bad sectors to try and correct errors that a CD can't. This is especially true when ripping CDs to create mp3/aff/flac files using a special program like Exact Audio Copy.

Same with video DVDs - I had a (recordable) DVD that would only play up to a certain point, then the player would choke and kick the disc back to the root menu. Tried multiple players without success. I was able to rip the DVD, but it took the better part of a day of the ripping software running its error correction protocol repeatedly before the rip finally completed. The offending sectors were unrecoverable, but I burned a new DVD from the ripped files and it played all the way through without issue. It had a brief (a couple of seconds) but noticeable glitch where the bad sectors had been on the original disc, but that was infinitely preferable to the disc I'd started with that wouldn't play past that point at all.