[paranoia] ripping whole cd X single track

[Monty]

Sorry for being a lame-ass about email recently.  Everytime I get heavy into
hacking, I let my email slip...

> I've such a (esthetic?)problem. I have PII/266, 192MB ram, Panasonic 585
> ide cddrive, cdparanoia III 9.[4-6] on my Linux box.
> When I copy whole audio cd (or a range oftracks) like 'cdparanoia -B 1-7',
> the progress indicator shows a lot -+V! marks.It usualy begins after the
> end of the first track and continues over wholerange. (mostly '-' with
> some 'V' and little '+' '!').(Well depends on medium).

The '-' is a known bug where verification slides a little on sections of all 
zeroes (like on pregaps between song of discs that actually obey redbook).

> But when I use something like (pseudocode):
> for (i = 1; i <= 7; i++) {
>   exec 'cdparanoia -B i'
> }
> 
> so between each track is cdparanoia ended and started with the only
> onetrack to encode, result is much better: only one - (or + or V or !) at
> the end of each track (like the first track from example above).

I'd expect the '-' to mostly go away from the above, but it shouldn;t affect 
occurrences of '!' or 'V' which are more likely to be real errors (spurious 
'!' at the edges of tracks are also possible due to the same bug).

> Wave files sounds same to me (on my $40 speakers). Is it problem of some
> cache?

No, it's just a genuine bug in CDparanoia's matching.

> Does it really affect quality or just some visual output errors? It could
> be unpleasant if I want the most exact cd copy, so I use cdrdao and 
> prepare data with 'cdparanoia 1-' and get lots of -+!V.

If it's only at the edges, it's just a visual problem; you shouldn't hear 
anything.  If those errors are in the middle of a track, that's a real error 
in the rip.

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