On Thursday 13 January 2011 12:07:02 Joerg Schilling wrote: > "J. Roeleveld" <jo...@antarean.org> wrote: > > Can you actually play that wav-file? Or is it just a collection of > > garbage? > > > > As far as I know, CD-Paranoia access the cd-drive a bit more directly > > then other tools. Eg. it approaches it like a CD-ROM, rather then > > CD-Audio. > > You are mistaken, cdparanoia is a patch on a really outdated cdda2wav (from > 1997) and it is limited to the DAE quality of the kernel drivers. > > In year 2000, cdda2wav was renewed to use libscg for sending RAW > pass-through SCSI commands directly to the drives. cdda23wav for this > reason can make use of special knowlede for various drives and deliveres > the best DAE quality on Linux I am aware of. > > Jörg
Jörg, From the FAQ on cdparanoia's website (http://xiph.org/paranoia/faq.html) it looks like that it's not based on cdda2wav, but actually uses a re-write of cdda2wav since January 1998. If this is the case, does it still have inferior quality compared to cdda23wav? -- Joost
