I've had some beat-up discs that I've tried ripping with EAC without AccurateRip.
For me, if I hear a pop or other distortion I need to know if it was on the CD, and on everyone else's copy of the CD. Mostly it depends on your preference, and your confidence in your ripping process. I ended up picking up new copies cheap and they ripped ok. They do have a slightly "cloudy" appearance to the plastic. Maybe it's the age of the CD's, I dont know. They look pristine, but I couldn't get accurate rips out of them. I had a heck of a time ripping my Diament Led Zeppelin cds. As Roebeet said, sometimes a rip on my main drive will fail, but it will rip on my backup drive with no problem. I've ripped about 1200 of my cds so far, and I'd say maybe 35-40 havent been totally accurate. It's pretty rare for me to see a rip fail AR. In those cases I was glad to have the AR flags so I knew to re-rip them. And in one case, on an enhanced CD that had video content, the last track of a rip had 2 minutes of silence added to it by dbpoweramp for some crazy reason (hence failing AR). On a few occasions I have heard audible clicks in playback of inaccurate files. Mostly it's just reassuring to me when I see all the tracks light up as accurate during the rip (I use dbpoweramp cd ripper for all my rips btw). The majority of the time I can't actually hear any audible error in the flac file, but I re-rip it to accurate if possible anyway (If not I mark the folder on my server so I can re-try it at some point later). While Gould falters when depicting emotional connections, she offers vivid glimpses of N.Y.C.'s recent past and impresses with striking language: a hangover makes Laura's head "feel like a black banana," and her baby is a "bomb" that requires "steady-handed defusing." Gould's portrait of a would-be artist as a young woman offers fresh, poignant insights into the challenges faced by the city's transplanted dreamers.Well, for me I wouldn't go without AccurateRip, mostly because I'm OCD and want to know if I make a bad rip so I can re-rip it with another drive, etc. By 2016, Laura's baby has grown into a rebellious teenager and Laura continues to waver between making ends meet and pursuing her dream.
Callie joins, and later, single mom Laura moves to Brooklyn, teaches music classes, and settles down with a divorced father. After Dylan dies in a drug-related accidental drowning, Callie and Laura are invited to replace Dylan in the band, but Laura, pregnant with Dylan's child, opts not to. In the early 2000s, 22-year-old Laura moves from Columbus, Ohio, into her high school friend Callie's East Village apartment, too late to catch the neighborhood's "mythic version of itself that existed in her mind." While working as a greeter at a slick lounge, she dreams of a music career and begins dating and doing drugs with Dylan, singer and guitarist for an up-and-coming band.
Gould's sharply observant novel (after Friendship) follows an aspiring singer-songwriter on the fringes of New York City's rock music scene. It is a delightful and poignant tale of music and motherhood, ambition and compromise-of life, in all its dissonance and harmony.
“A zippy and profound story of love, loss, heredity, and parenthood (Emma Straub), Perfect Tunes explores the fault lines in our most important relationships, and asks whether dreams deferred can ever be reclaimed. But neither her best friend, now a famous musician who relies on Laura’s songwriting skills, nor her depressed and searching daughter will let her give up on her dreams. Laura has built a stable life in Brooklyn that bears little resemblance to the one she envisioned when she left Ohio all those years ago, and she’s taken pains to close the door on what was and what might have been. Their time together is stormy and short-lived-but will reverberate for the rest of Laura’s life.įifteen years later, Laura’s teenage daughter, Marie, is asking questions about her father, questions that Laura does not want to answer. A songwriter with a one-of-a-kind talent, she’s just beginning to book gigs with her beautiful best friend when she falls hard for a troubled but magnetic musician whose star is on the rise. It’s the early days of the new millennium, and Laura has arrived in New York City’s East Village in the hopes of recording her first album. Have you ever wondered what your mother was like before she became your mother, and what she gave up in order to have you? “An intoxicating blend of music, love, and family from one of the essential writers of the internet generation” (Stephanie Danler).
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