Mastodawn

This is a general invitation to chat (async, likely) or otherwise connect if you have an interest in disc dumping/preservation of CD, DVD, Blu-Ray, UHD Blu-Ray, and/or game console discs, want to get into it, and you aren't sure where to start, what to do, or what to use.

It's something I've been doing for a long time, and it's something I'm very passionate about. I'm happy to help newbies get their efforts off the ground if they want assistance.

I wouldn't say I'm any sort of authority or 'expert', but I've done this for so long that I'm aware of many quirks and 'gotchas' that come with it, and I'm happy to share my knowledge and experience!

Feel free to boost, if you'd like!

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narylis Feb 28

@maddy just here to say thank you for doing this. as someone who has had to build up a similar knowledge base on quer own (ask me about the time i almost ended up digging into the linux usb cd driver before concluding that usb controllers are probably a fuck and therefore it was not worth it) i can safely say that figuring out how to get accurate preservation rips of optical discs is a hellish multi-year experience for the uninitiated

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narylis

@maddy (these days i’m just glad redumper solved the cd data track problem properly before i got around to doing so myself. audio cds are annoying enough on their own.)