[paranoia] Streaming Errors

[John Lawless]

Monty,

     I have, for example, performed several reads in succession on a problem
track.  While no "V" or "!" appeared, the majority of the status bar was
filled with "+".  No two reads produced the same WAV file, as determined by
cmp.  This means that errors got through, doesn't it?

     (By contrast, on normal CDs, I find that successive reads using
cdparanoia produce whole disk WAV files that are byte-to-byte identical.)

John

On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 07:24:15PM -0700, Monty wrote:
> >      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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