Here you will find valuable
info on many different types of hardware.
The most important piece of
hardware you can buy is a CD-ROM drive that will support SIA (Stream Is
Accurate). A drive with this support will allow you to rip your audio discs
worry free.
If you are going to be doing
a fair amount of ripping, invest in a GOOD cd-rom drive. You can get an
excellent one for under $60.00.
Pretty much any
NEW CD-Rom drive can do DAE (Digital Audio Extraction) transfers. Our goal
is to present you with data on as many CD-Roms as possible...Which drives
work well with Zlurp! and which ones don't. As an added bonus - we can
even get you a killer deal on a shiny new CD-Rom drive from CDW!
Call TOLL
FREE 877-325-3009 Dustin Arft. He will be more then happy to help you out!
What you should
be looking for in a CD-Rom drive...
There are
2 very important areas to look at in the data below.
The first is
the CDDA column. CDDA is CD Digital Audio. If this is TRUE, it means
that the drive can rip audio. Obviously, if CDDA is FALSE, you've got a
problem!
The second
column to watch is SIA, or Stream Is Accurate. A drive with SIA
as TRUE guarantees that the data coming off of the CD will be perfect.
If this is FALSE, you will probably still be able to rip a CD, but you
will have to tinker with Zlurp!s jitter control settings to get good results.
This method will also be somewhat slower. So for the best results you want
a drive with TRUE/TRUE for the CDDA/SIA columns!
For questions
about the other data columns, see the Glossary of Header Terms below.
CDW
PN MFG Description
COST MFG Number
142576
ASUS ASUS 40X IDE CDR
$50.00* CD-S400/ASUS
146503
Kenwood Kenwood 52X TrueX IDE 7 beam CDR $98.69* UCR412WB
108475
SONY Sony Spressa CDU 711/CH CDR
$74.09* CDU711/CH
153208
Toshiba Toshiba 40X IDE CDR
$54.00* XM6502B-TA
141924
PLEXTOR PLEXTOR 40X INT SCSI TRAY CDR $116.24*
CD-ROM PX-40TS
| Drive
MFR |
Model |
Firmware |
ISRC |
CDDA |
SIA |
Speed |
Buffer |
Lock |
Eject |
Method
2 |
| ASUS |
CD-S400/A |
v2.0H |
TRUE |
TRUE |
TRUE |
40x |
128KB |
TRUE |
TRUE |
FALSE |
| E-IDE |
CD-ROM
48X/AKU |
vU23 |
TRUE |
TRUE |
TRUE |
48x |
128KB |
TRUE |
TRUE |
FALSE |
| HITACHI |
CDR-8330 |
v0007 |
TRUE |
TRUE |
FALSE |
24x |
128KB |
TRUE |
TRUE |
TRUE |
| KENWOOD |
CD-ROM
UCR-412 |
v119I |
TRUE |
TRUE |
TRUE |
45x |
512KB |
TRUE |
TRUE |
FALSE |
| PIONEER |
CD-ROM
DR-A04S |
v1.05 |
TRUE |
TRUE |
TRUE |
32x |
128KB |
TRUE |
TRUE |
FALSE |
| SONY |
CD-ROM
CDU701 |
v1.0r |
TRUE |
TRUE |
TRUE |
14x |
128KB |
TRUE |
TRUE |
TRUE |
| SONY |
CD_ROM
CDU771 |
v1.0g |
TRUE |
TRUE |
TRUE |
14x |
256KB |
TRUE |
TRUE |
TRUE |
| TEAC |
CD-532E-B |
v1.0A |
TRUE |
TRUE |
TRUE |
32x |
128KB |
TRUE |
TRUE |
TRUE |
| TOSHIBA |
CD-ROM
XM-5602B |
v1656 |
TRUE |
TRUE |
FALSE |
8x |
256KB |
TRUE |
TRUE |
FALSE |
| TOSHIBA |
CD-ROM
XM-6402B |
v1008 |
TRUE |
TRUE |
TRUE |
32x |
256KB |
TRUE |
TRUE |
FALSE |
| TOSHIBA |
CD-ROM
XM-6502B |
v1013 |
TRUE |
TRUE |
TRUE |
40x |
256KB |
TRUE |
TRUE |
FALSE |
CDW
PN MFG Description
COST MFG Number
182732
SONY SONY 40X IDE CDR $54.00* CDU-4011
| NOT
YET VERIFIED - RAW INFO |
These drives have been reported
as being tried with Zlurp!, but we have not yet verified how well they
work. If you see your CR-Rom on this list, please drop us an e-mail and
tell us how Zlurp! is working.
Glossary
of Header Terms
Drive MFR
Who manufactured the drive.
Model
Model name of the drive.
Firmware
Version of firmware for this drive.
Firmware is a hardware BIOS, that is, a low level instruction set for the
hardware.
ISRC
ISRC (International Standard Recording
Code) is the international identification system for sound recordings.
Each ISRC is a unique and permanent identifier for a specific recording
which can be permanently encoded into a product, such as a CD. This field
defines the capability of the drive to read this code.
CDDA
CDDA (CD Digital Audio) defines
a drive's capability to extract (or rip) audio from a CD directly in digital
format, without having to use an analog step.
SIA
SIA (Stream Is Accurate) tells whether
the drive guarantees that the data ripped from the CD is perfect.
Speed
How fast can data be accessed from
the drive. 1x would be real time. This parameter goes hand in hand with
the buffer size.
Buffer
The buffer is where data is stored
before it is read from the drive. The bigger the buffer, the more data
can be read at a time. Of course, a drive's speed impacts how fast data
can be read as well...if the speed is slow, it will take longer to fill
a large buffer, and a program will have to wait to read the data. Conversely,
a speedy drive with a small buffer may be wasting it's speed. A program
may not be able to keep up with how fast the buffer is filled. This time
the drive must wait for the program to read before filling the buffer again.
Lock
Describes whether the mechanism
can lock a CD in the drive, preventing ejection.
Eject
Describes whether the mechanism
can be made to eject the CD on command.
Method 2
To be honest, I haven't found what
this refers to yet! :>)
It appears to be an alternate method
of ripping data, but the details are scarce.
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