[paranoia] Lots of '-' on first track

Fri Feb 11 04:31:00 PST 2000

On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Monty wrote:

> > > It is not a bug. It simply means that 'cdaranoia' has to do
> > > some jitter correction. AFAIK there is almost no CDROM for
> > > that 'cdparanoia' doesn't have to do some jitter correction.
> > > How much of this appears depends on your cdrom, e.g. of its
> > > ability to extract audio data without jittering.
> > 
> > No no, that's not what I mean at all.  Sorry if I was unclear
> > ;-).  I know perfectly well what '-' means, and I've been
> > using cdparanoia and computers in general for quite some time
> > -- perhaps I should have mentioned that I'm not a newbie :-).
> 
> 9.7 should not be reporting spurious jitter, but it's a
> possibility. I'll have a look.  Is the track solid '-', or just
> partially?  Edges?  How about a sample progress bar :-)

Both -- sometimes solid, sometimes not.  All kinds of patterns
:-).  Here are the last few rips I did.  I'm using Jack as a front
end (IMHO it's a lot better than Grip), in case the output format
seems strange.  It just launches a normal cdparanoia command line
per track, and also it rips them in more or less random order --
the longest tracks go first, in order to mimimize disk space usage
when ripping and encoding in parallell -- so track 01 doesn't go
first, but it's still the only one reporting jitter.  The third
column is ripping speed, by the way.  Now, if I do the same CDs
again I get different results, but always the same -- random
jitter on the first track and the rest error-free.  Never any
serious problems.  Love my Plextor :-).  For those interested,
Jack is at http://www.home.unix-ag.org/arne/jack/ -- it can be
tricky to install, but I think it's worth it.

Oh, and let me repeat, just in case anyone doesn't feel like
checking the list archives:

I'm using cdparanoia 9.7 on Linux 2.2.14 (with the latest i2c
patch, for my bttv card), Redhat 6.1 distro, an Adaptec 2940 PCI
SCSI card, (external) Plextor CDRW 8/2/20 (firmware 1.02), and the
'puter is an intel PII266 with 64MB RAM.

This is  jack 2.99.0 (C) 2000  Arne Zellentin <arne at unix-ag.org>
Info: cwd now /mnt/dos/braenna/Tori_Amos-Little_Earthquakes
The final status was:
track_01 05:00:  2.4x [    -  ----                   ] 
track_02 04:07:  2.8x [                              ] 
track_03 04:11:  3.0x [                              ] 
track_04 04:27:  3.1x [                              ] 
track_05 05:42:  3.3x [                              ] 
track_06 03:15:  3.4x [                              ] 
track_07 05:00:  3.6x [                              ] 
track_08 03:12:  3.7x [                              ] 
track_09 06:59:  3.7x [                              ] 
track_10 04:38:  3.8x [                              ] 
track_11 03:44:  3.8x [                              ] 
track_12 06:52:  3.8x [                              ] 

Info: cwd now /mnt/dos/braenna/Tori_Amos-Under_The_Pink
The final status was:
track_01 03:26:  2.3x [------------------------------] 
track_02 03:59:  2.6x [                              ] 
track_03 05:22:  2.8x [                              ] 
track_04 04:06:  3.0x [                              ] 
track_05 03:18:  3.1x [                              ] 
track_06 03:03:  3.2x [                              ] 
track_07 03:10:  3.3x [                              ] 
track_08 05:07:  3.3x [                              ] 
track_09 05:47:  3.4x [                              ] 
track_10 04:43:  3.7x [                              ] 
track_11 05:12:  3.6x [                              ] 
track_12 09:33:  3.8x [                              ] 

Info: cwd now /mnt/dos/braenna/Tori_Amos-Boys_For_Pele
The final status was:
track_01 06:07:  2.5x [ --                           ] 
track_02 03:56:  2.9x [                              ] 
track_03 03:42:  3.0x [                              ] 
track_04 04:31:  3.1x [                              ] 
track_05 01:07:  2.8x [                              ] 
track_06 04:09:  3.4x [                              ] 
track_07 04:26:  3.5x [                              ] 
track_08 03:49:  3.5x [                              ] 
track_09 05:11:  3.7x [                              ] 
track_10 01:13:  3.1x [                              ] 
track_11 04:30:  3.8x [                              ] 
track_12 04:08:  3.8x [                              ] 
track_13 03:50:  3.8x [                              ] 
track_14 01:25:  3.4x [                              ] 
track_15 04:20:  3.8x [                              ] 
track_16 05:33:  3.8x [                              ] 
track_17 05:15:  3.8x [                              ] 
track_18 03:11:  3.7x [                              ] 

Info: cwd now /home/mp3/new/Tori_Amos-From_the_Choirgirl_Hotel
The final status was:
track_01 04:14:  2.4x [       -   --                 ] 
track_02 04:07:  2.8x [                              ] 
track_03 04:38:  3.0x [                              ] 
track_04 03:58:  3.1x [                              ] 
track_05 04:26:  3.3x [                              ] 
track_06 04:07:  3.5x [                              ] 
track_07 06:21:  3.7x [                              ] 
track_08 03:42:  3.8x [                              ] 
track_09 04:19:  3.9x [                              ] 
track_10 05:19:  4.0x [                              ] 
track_11 04:08:  4.0x [                              ] 
track_12 04:46:  4.0x [                              ] 

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