If you agree, why would you want to suggest something that may produce the same CRC for two rips that are actually different. It would defeat the whole purpose.
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He wants to compare drives with different read offsets.
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These are the stated wishes of the original poster:
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Which rip should I take and which should I delete? Is this a issue with one of the drives?
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EDIT: FWIW, switching the use of null samples setting will give the same CRC for this track: 3B0BA038. The reason is that the no use of null samples algorithm will skip over a null sample in either channel anywhere within the track.
When this type of error occurs, it's as if a single null sample is inserted at the beginning of the data stream which will be ignored by the no null samples version of the CRC calculation. This extra sample will appear in the left channel pushing the true first sample of the left channel into the right channel and so on. If the final sample (the right one) of the last stereo pair in the stream that got pushed out into the next track happens to be null, the CRCs will be the same for both versions. When it is not the CRCs will be different.