On 01/13/11 22:32, Joerg Schilling wrote: > "J. Roeleveld" <jo...@antarean.org> wrote: > >> 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 You are mistaken, cdparanoia is a patch on a really outdated cdda2wav (from 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. >> Ok, I stand corrected. I did, however, always have more succes ripping music >> from audio-cds with cdparanoia then with other tools I tried. > Then you did probably not recently try cdda2wav. After the development for > cdparanoia stopped in year 2000, cdda2wav integrated the important code parts > from cdparanoia into cdda2wav by creating a portable library libparanoia in > April 2002. > > Since then, cdda2wav combines the best features from both commands. If you > like > to tell cdda2wav to use the paranoia code, just call cdda2wav -paranoia. > Cdda2wav is able to read many CDs that cannot be read by cdparanoia at all. > > Jörg Why do they give me this info, then?
jmoe@aus8617 ~ $ cdda2wav --version cdda2wav 3.00 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1993-2004 Heiko Eià jmoe@aus8617 ~ $ cdparanoia --version cdparanoia III release 10.2 (September 11, 2008) >From that, it appears that cdparanoia is newer. Jake Moe
