I guess I really didn't answer your q's though
>If i rip my CD using MC using a lossless encoder (lets sayWMlossless) is this an exact duplicate of the cd
On a track by track basis...yes, if ripped in secure mode. When converted back to wav it should be a perfect duplicate of the original. If you wanted a perfect copy of the entire disk, then you would use EAC's Copy Image & Create CUE Sheet. This creates a one file rip that in unison with the cue sheet, can create a CD that is a perfect replica of the original disk, including all gapping and lead in (+/- a few ms on the lead-in track if drive offset is not fiddled with)
> Also, any ideas on the lossless encoders? ... Windows lossless, how does it compare to the ape?
Of the 3 (ape, flac, wml), I believe ape has the best compression ratio. Flac is the least processor intensive (at least on on decode). Wml has MS behind it (either
or
, depending on whether your a basher or not). Flac has the best off-computer hardware support (Rio Karma, Neuros ...soon, and a few others). I lean toward flac, because of neat little utilities like OggDropXPd where you simply drag your flac onto the OD icon and wala, you have a fully and accurately tagged ogg. I'm waiting for LAMEDropXPd to become as functional. You'll (probably??) never see neat utils like that for wml.
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