Is it possible there’s no information to recover? Like if I tried hard enough, I think I could rip a waffle, but I’m not sure the result would be sensible.
I’m going to go ahead and postulate that if you tried to rip a waffle three hundred times, at some point during that process the bit stream would start to diverge wildly as mould grows on it, pieces get flung away by rotation and eventually it rots.
The fact that he was able to get 13 copies (even out of 300) that have the same CRC suggests that there’s something real there. That wouldn’t happen by chance.
And thinking about it no, you couldn’t rip a waffle. For a CD drive to read anything at all it has to see pit/land transitions every 3 spaces (at least) at something approximating the correct rate. A random physical object would just have no signal at all and you’d know there was no signal, like trying to receive digital radio when there’s no carrier wave.
This is track 3 from the CD. It’s cheesy soft synth video game muzak. It’s in high quality on YouTube. Awesome insight in the process of ripping, but why for this particular track?
Oh, that music! I never been a fan of Ragnarok Online and even only played it on my own local bootleg server, alone, in 2005, but I somewhat liked this game because it felt very weird. Lots of nostalgia feelings when I listened to this music now.
This is some next level determination/stubbornness.
Is it possible there’s no information to recover? Like if I tried hard enough, I think I could rip a waffle, but I’m not sure the result would be sensible.
I’m going to go ahead and postulate that if you tried to rip a waffle three hundred times, at some point during that process the bit stream would start to diverge wildly as mould grows on it, pieces get flung away by rotation and eventually it rots.
The fact that he was able to get 13 copies (even out of 300) that have the same CRC suggests that there’s something real there. That wouldn’t happen by chance.
And thinking about it no, you couldn’t rip a waffle. For a CD drive to read anything at all it has to see pit/land transitions every 3 spaces (at least) at something approximating the correct rate. A random physical object would just have no signal at all and you’d know there was no signal, like trying to receive digital radio when there’s no carrier wave.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJGrl4gJxx4
This is track 3 from the CD. It’s cheesy soft synth video game muzak. It’s in high quality on YouTube. Awesome insight in the process of ripping, but why for this particular track?
Nostalgia is a powerful drug
Oh, that music! I never been a fan of Ragnarok Online and even only played it on my own local bootleg server, alone, in 2005, but I somewhat liked this game because it felt very weird. Lots of nostalgia feelings when I listened to this music now.