Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:03:39 +0200 From: martinko <gamato@users.sf.net> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: audio CD's in SCSI drives -- syntax? Message-ID: <46F2D21B.7000707@users.sf.net> In-Reply-To: <46ac6c33.8zupQvEYO9dYFsZV%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> References: <46ac6c33.8zupQvEYO9dYFsZV%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
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Joerg Schilling wrote: >> I think it might be worthwhile throwing out cdda2wav as the reference >> tool completely and instead rewrite the tutorial to feature cdparanoia, >> which is pretty much the state of the art ripping utilitiy these days >> (and has been even longer on Linux), works with device names rather than >> unit numbers for SCSI drives as well, does in fact not require the >> specification of any device by default as it will autoscan for devices >> and just use the first one it finds and finally is used as the ripping >> backend by nearly all modern GUI ripping utilities. > > Please try to inform yourself to avoid writing incorrect claims...... > > Cdparanoia started as a patch on cdda2wav in 1997. It did never improve it's > CD-DA code and for this reason, it's CD-DA properties are based on what > cdda2wav could do 10 years ago. The code is full of non-portable parts. > > Cdparanoia died in 2001. > > For this reason, I did pull out it's essentials and created a portable > and bug-fixed version of the paranoia code as "libparanoia" in 2002. > Then cdda2wav has been enhanced to use the libparanoia code. > Since 2002, cdds2wav it definitely the best choice for CD audio extraction. > > Monty did a great job when creating the code that is in libparanoia but he is > no longer interested in cdparanoia. > > Cdda2wav reads CDs that cdparanoia won't read at all and it usually even does > not need a dev= parameter at all! This is something Monty did try to implement > a long time but never was able to devliver. Cdda2wav in attition writes a > summyry line for each track that tells you whether there are audible problems > in the extracted data. > > Do you really like to give up maintained code in favor of a dead program? > > http://cdrecord.berlios.de/ > > Jörg > Joerg, I can see the following in man cdda2wav : -paranoia use the paranoia library instead of cdda2wav's routines for reading. Now I'm not sure how to use that state of the art extraction -- with or without -paranoia parameter ? And BTW why are there two methods of extraction, why not to have only the better one ? Cheers, Martin
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