From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Jul 28 19:11:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com [24.6.21.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FD3137B80A; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 19:11:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from conrads@cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA38670; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 21:11:32 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 21:11:32 -0500 (CDT) Reply-To: conrads@home.com Organization: @Home Network From: Conrad Sabatier To: luigi@iet.unipi.it Subject: cdd port permanently "broken"? Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, dburr@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The port of cdd (/usr/ports/audio/cdd) has been marked as broken for FreeBSD versions 4.x and higher for quite some time now. What exactly would it take to get it to work again? I used to use cdd on my old machine before it died, and it did a beautiful job of ripping audio on ATAPI drives. I've been using dagrab since getting a new machine and upgrading to FreeBSD 4.x, but the quality of the rips sometimes just isn't there (pops, crackles, etc.). Maybe I just need to tweak some parms in dagrab, but I never had any such problems with cdd. It did perfect rips every time with a minimum of muss and fuss. Also, this ties in to the ripit-atapi port, which depends on cdd (so shouldn't it also be marked as broken for the time being?). Cdd, in combination with just about any MP3 encoder (I had modified my own copy of ripit.pl to use gogo -- talk about fast!) was a simply splendid method for ripping audio on ATAPI drives, and I would love to see it come back. Unfortunately, I'm not clued in enough as to why it (cdd) is broken in the first place (something to do with CAM and SCSI), nor how to go about fixing it. Is this simply not possible? If that be the case, then it really should be removed from the ports collection, and the ripit-atapi package modified to use some other audio grabber instead. I would be happy to try my hand at "fixing" cdd, if someone could give me some pointers as to where the problem areas are specifically. As it is, I'm completely at a loss as to where to even begin. Conrad, pining for fast, simple, and *correct* audio ripping -- Conrad Sabatier http://members.home.net/conrads/ ICQ# 1147270 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message