[paranoia] Major cdparanoia wierdness

[J. Scott Edwards]

I have seen a few strange cases (1 disk in maybe 500) where paranoia
could not cope with a certain disk.  It would get 1% in maybe a few hours.
The really strange thing would be that the disk looked fine, no visible
scratches or defects.  I could put another disk in the same drive and it
would read just fine.  And usually I could put that bad disk in another
machine and it would be fine.  My guess was that there was something about
the combination of a certain disk and a certain drive that was
incompatible, but I don't know.

I would also suggest powering the whole machine off for a minute or so and
then try it again.  I have one drive that goes wacky once in a while and I
have to power cycle the machine to get it working again.

-Scott

<p>On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Jack Pistachio wrote:

>
> --- Chris <chris at tech.com.au> wrote:
> > But on the 50th disk, half way through, it has slowed to
> > absurd
> > proportions. It is ripping only about 1% per day! At this
> > rate it will take weeks to finish the rip of a single cd.
>
> What symbols does paranoia's progress bar show?  What
> condition is the CD in?  Does it do this with all tracks?
> The only experience I've had with cds that rip very slowly
> have been badly scratched or otherwise damaged cds.
> Paranoia continues to try to recover the scratches, pits,
> etc until it gets something it feels okay with (for lack of
> a better phrase).
>
> >
> > I saw in the FAQ that under Linux for certain drives it
> > could be very
> > slow, but I didn't see any indication it would vary
> > between disk to disk.
>
> I doubt the problem is the drive.
> >
> > I'm presuming that there is something a bit dodgy about
> > this particular
> > disk, but I can't understand how it seems to be actually
> > working but so
> > slow! I played a track that was ripped at this slow speed
> > and it seems
> > to be ok.
> Even on worse case disk you can get something ok sounding.
> That's the beauty of paranoia.  However, it can take
> forever.
>
> -jackp
>
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