Tracker offering what.cd invite ??

**GotIt** · 29.12.09, 22:50

What, is it common sense that you are not allowed to do that on what.cd?

I was just having a little tease

You can't get usually get flac before cd, and ive never seen it get asked in that order xD

**willful** · 30.12.09, 12:56

Originally Posted by GotIt

I was just having a little tease

You can't get usually get flac before cd, and ive never seen it get asked in that order xD

This is how it was asked(copied from the irc log):
FLAC -> APE -> WavPack -> Burned CD -> FLAC
Apparently that isn't allowed - here what he wrote: "although you don't lose data, you are not allowed to rip music from a burned cd"

**anon** · 30.12.09, 17:03

... APE -> WavPack -> ...

So they ask about lossless compression formats they're no longer allowing?

**GotIt** · 30.12.09, 23:28

FLAC -> APE -> WavPack -> Burned CD -> FLAC

Well that's weird, I've taken the test 3 times, and I've never seen a question like that :S
Though it makes no sense... if you have a cue, you can burn an identical copy of the album, making a rip possible.

Oh well.

**Instab** · 30.12.09, 23:59

Originally Posted by willful

This is how it was asked(copied from the irc log):
FLAC -> APE -> WavPack -> Burned CD -> FLAC
Apparently that isn't allowed - here what he wrote: "although you don't lose data, you are not allowed to rip music from a burned cd"

new rule as it seems.
a bit too picky for my taste ... oh well

**LegitCheater** · 31.12.09, 18:44

i think the problem is that not all software uses the same way to burn CD, the question only asks "burned CD", which could mean either you moved the files on to the CD or you burned the CD as an audio CD, which would mean the program had to do some modifying to put them that way. So it's not really whether it loses quality or data, it's just that when you start burning CD, you never know if it is still going to be that same way it was before. Sort of like burning a SACD to a CD, there bound to be some problems...

...but yes, very anal.

I guess just know that the CD is always the start, and lossless to lossless always is that, lossless to lossless, that usually means there is not interference of lossy formats in between or anything like a "burning a CD", because that doesn't hold a definite "is it a lossy or a lossless?" format.

these sort of questions have the same pattern,

lossless -> lossless -> lossless -> lossy Ok
lossless -> lossy -> lossless Bad
lossy -> lossless Bad
lossy -> lossy Bad

just keep in mind that when it has to do with lossless it has to be that way until it hits a lossy format, anything else that does not look like a lossy or a lossless format, especially when it talks about burning, is probably a good sign that the answers is, that it is bad. Honestly, you are most likely not going to need to know most of this stuff when you actually get in, most applications like dbpower and foobar just do that work for you, and their wiki explains everything in detail in what is wrong or right...so don't waste your breath trying to argue with the questions, or even the validity with them....just bullshit your way through...