Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

[Jake Moe]

On 01/14/11 21:30, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Jake Moe <jakesaddr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> 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?
> Because cdda2wav is the better choice
>
>> jmoe@aus8617 ~ $ cdda2wav --version
>> cdda2wav 3.00 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1993-2004 Heiko EiÃ
>>
>> jmoe@aus8617 ~ $ cdparanoia --version
>> cdparanoia III release 10.2 (September 11, 2008)
>>
>> From that, it appears that cdparanoia is newer.
> The latest cdparanoia is from 2001. There seem to appear "later" versions but 
> they do not increase functionality, they just fix some C syntax problems that 
> prevent compilation with newer GCC versions. But all cdparanoia versions are 
> based on a cdda2wav from 1997 and thus use outdated read functions.
>
> The interesting question seems to be: Why do you try to confuse people 
> regarding to cdda2wav by modifiying it's output?
>
> cdda2wav-3.0 is from June 2010 and there is even a 3.01a02 from December 2010.
>
> Jörg
>
Ok, thanks for the info.

Jake Moe