Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 18:35:58 +0200 From: Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) To: lofi@freebsd.org, freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: audio CD's in SCSI drives -- syntax? Message-ID: <46ae136e.wkRvqQ8nxjNyagAB%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> In-Reply-To: <200707291819.51974.lofi@freebsd.org> References: <46ac6c33.8zupQvEYO9dYFsZV%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> <200707291819.51974.lofi@freebsd.org>
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Michael Nottebrock <lofi@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Sunday, 29. July 2007, 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......
>
> Consider the "state of the art" bit a personal opinion and not a statement of fact. :)
Sorry for the typo... I wanted to write:
The code that is _now_ found in libparanoia is indeed state of the art.
^^^^^^
In 1997, this was also true for the paranoia program. Today, it still seems
to be widely unknown that cdda2wav is state of the art.
Jörg
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