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		gus_massa on Dec 30, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Recovering an audio disk ripped in an unkn... You are just reading blocks of 2448 bytes and writing blocks of 2352 bytes. Does this just remove some kind of "footer"/crc/whatever?

matja on Dec 30, 2018 [–]

Yes, in the .mdf format there is usually subchannel information after every sector. In Red Book (CDDA) Mode 2, this is 2352 bytes of audio data followed by 96 bytes of subchannel data, so this is just skipping the subchannel data.

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