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Originally Posted by neekap
as I rip every CD I buy to MP3 and tuck the original away to reduce the risk of breaking, scratching, losing them.
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I hear that.
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Where's the opportunity for mistakes, anyway?
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I only meant that if the analog cable is attached you might not initially notice you're using analog. If it isn't attached the sound transfer can only be clean digital.
Really, there are few reasons to use analog transfer. The need mostly died when software all started supporting digital. It's fuzzy now but I recall most drives supported digital transfers by about 98. On the downside there's a very slight increase in overhead with digital since it requires data transfer on the bus normally used for file i/o. (150KB/s, or ~0.15% of a 100MB/s bus) That will slightly slow copies over the same bus, or more likely, if the i/o system is tied up with heavy activity it may interrupt the music.