On Fri, June 5, 2009 12:21, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Jesús Guerrero <i92gu...@terra.es> wrote: > > >> On Wed, June 3, 2009 22:23, Joerg Schilling wrote: >> >>> Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> BTW: this is where you see that cdparranoia(1) is now 12 year old and >>> unmaintained since ~ 10 years. cdda2wav -paranoia gives much better >>> results that cdparanoia. >> >> Pardon me for getting in the middle but I am really curious about >> this. I know that paranoia is old but according to their web page the >> last update was "September 11, 2008". However maybe it was just a >> maintenance update to fix compilation errors or something like that. > > Correct, there was a mainenance update but cdparanoia is still based on > a cdda2wav source from 1997. > >> I have researched about cdda2wav vs. cdparanoia vs. cdrdao in the past >> and came to the conclussion that cdparanioa is probably the worst >> nowadays, however I am not sure it's dead. > > cdrdao did not et new features since 4 years and it did not get even a > maintenance update since 3 years. > > cdparanoia is a "patch" on a cdd2wav source from 1997 and there was a lot > of activities 'till March 2001 with cdparanoia-III-alpha9.8 since then no > new features have been introduced and as the project did look completely > dead, I decided to take the relevent code, make a real portable library > from it and use it from cdda2wav. This port was done in spring 2002. > > > A year ago, there have been some minor code changes and lot's > of new comment in the main paranoia code. The new comment has been moved to > libparanoia for cddawav....
Thanks a lot for clearing that for me. :) -- Jesús Guerrero
