[paranoia] Bug, and a suggestion

[erik]

Greetings,
    First, I just wanted to say that I really like your CDParanoia program.
now, for the Bug:
    Sometimes, things will get messed up to the point that CDParanoia will start 
asking for non-existant sectors from the driver, causing a "Command rejected by 
Target". CDParanoia fails to notice that it is speaking gibberish to the drive 
(there is no sector "-1", etc.), and keeps retrying the same (invalid) command 
in an infinite loop (reguardless of -z=5,-X, etc.). It probably should treat 
that SCSI error as a "Skip", and thus break itself out of the infinite loop.
   And finally, an output sugestion: It would be nice if you had a more compact 
progress output option, which could be logged, and be able to suppress the 
(extraneous) SCSI errors. Given the number of CDs in my library, I would prefer 
that the "progress" output be limited to one line per track, and not state the 
output filename. All I really care about is the how each track looked like in a 
general sense, and fitting it all onto one console page would be nice. If you 
were to simply replace the word "PROGRESS" with "Track ###", and supress all 
other output (possibly including errors), it would be almost perfect. Perfection 
would be to optionally copy the final "progress" line for a given track to a log 
file. That way, as my scripts tear through my CD disc changer, I get to see 
what's going on in a single glance (that has not run off the screen) and/or be 
able to review what happened while I was sleeping.

    It is unclear to me when (if ever) you are planning to resume working on 
CDParanoia, as the odd-vorbis stuff is quite a time consuming project I hear. If 
you think that it will be more than 6 months, please let me know and will think 
about making a patch against the public CVS tree for your consideration. 
(Learning another person's code has a significant startup time cost, and I would 
hate to pay it and make the patch, only to find that you have already fixed 
things or have moved on from version 9.8)

Sincerely,
   - Erik Lindsley

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