[paranoia] Streaming Errors

[Monty]

>      When should DAE be considered successful?  
> 
>      Specifically, when cdparanoia reports many "+"s in the progress bar
> (i.e. "Unreported loss of streaming/other error in read") and the output
> smiley is often a ":-P" (i.e. "Unreported loss of streaming in atomic read
> operation"), does this mean that errors have been successfully corrected or
> should the resulting WAV file be considered unreliable?

The errors have been corrected.

>      Normally, cdparanoia runs for me without any errors.  The exception is
> a couple of Maxell CD-Rs I received that generate these streaming errors.
> 
>      Are there any runtime options to help with this type of problem?  (I
> tried "-z" which seemed to help: after a run with many "+"s and 1 "V" , a
> run with "+z" on the same CD produced many "+"s but no "V".)

'V' is the only certain worry.  Lots of '!' also likely indicates a problem.  
'+' and '-' are nothing to worry about if using paranoia.

Monty

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