I JUST found out how to use dd. Holy shit.
I did file surgery to check if K3B's CD rips are as accurate as ExactAudioCopy's. At least with brand-new CDs, they're identical aside from being offset by 24 bytes (due to my DVD drive?).
It really is magical how files are just numbers.
I mean, I KNOW they are, but actually manipulating them and effectively "splicing" them manually is so nuts.
And I of course learned the right way to do it by chucking the Wrong Parameters to dd so I was working in -
- blocks instead of bytes, and then in one-byte increments, lol.
'splains this miserable write speed.