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Subject: CD audio: jitter correction?
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From: oliver.fromme@heim3.tu-clausthal.de (Oliver Fromme)
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Hello,

I hope this is the right place to post questions like this.

As you might know, I have written a program for FreeBSD that
reads digital audio via the SCSI bus.  So far I haven't
bothered to implement any jitter correction, because it works
perfectly well without j.c. with all three drives which I'm
able to test it with (a NEC and a Toshiba CD-ROM drive, and a
Philips/IMS CD writer).

Now my question is:  How important is jitter correction?
Do only older drives need it?  Or am I just lucky that my
drives work without?

By the way:  would it be appropriate to make the program a
FreeBSD package, or would that not be worth the effort?  I'm
a bit hesitant since I've never done that before, but a tool
to read CD digital audio seems to be missing in the FreeBSD
ports/packages collection so far.

If anyone is interested in the program, it's available from
this web page:  http://www.heim3.tu-clausthal.de/~olli/tosha/

Best regards
   Oliver Fromme

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