[paranoia] Crappy CD-ROM

[Torben Andersen]

Rob Blomquist wrote:

>Apparently I have a lousy CD-ROM, as all cdparanoia can do is complain and 
>tell me it will take about 3 weeks to rip a CD. This makes sense of course, 
>as I don't really live on the fastest, hottest, best-review bandwagon, and I 
>probroably have something like an 8x drive on this machine.
>
>But I wanna rip some cds under linux so my wife stops laughing at me and 
>linux.
>
>I want some recomendations for decent, not too expensive CD-R drives, as this 
>fall, I want a new box, and I mean everything is going to be new, and fast 
>with CD-RW and the like.
>
>
>Rob
>  
>
Have you tried the "-Z" option to make cdparanoia make a bit pr. bit 
copy. Some cd's are deliberate made with errors to confuse the 
rip-program and make it extremly slow (the ripping program retryes again 
and again).

Regards Torben

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