[paranoia] paranoia vs EAC

Charlton Harrison charlton at dynet.com
Fri Sep 5 07:07:52 PDT 2003



Presumably ExactAudioCopy produces an exact audio copy of the
digital data on the CD just like cdparanoia does,  but is it
as _paranoid_ about making sure that data is accurate down to
the last bit?

I get the impression that you are using Windoze so I have to
ask which encoder you are planning on using.  That might very-
well be more important.

<p>Charlton

<p>On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:27:30PM +0200, Boris Maizel wrote:
> Hi All!
> 
> As many nowadays I plan to RIP my entire CD collection.
> I have surfed Internet for a time, all serious howtos
> recommend to use cdparanoia on Linux and ExactAudioCopy on Windows.
> But I did not find any direct comparison of this tools :(
> 
> Because I'm writing to the paranoia list, I expect
> to here from you, why is the paranoia better ;-)))
> Are there differences in algorithms used?
> Any reasons to expect better quality, at least for some CD-s?
> 
> It seams, that EAC is currently more feature-rich.
> I don't mean integrated interface, but things like
> pregap detection, offset setting, etc. Is this opinion right?
> 
> Please, no general "Windows vs Linux" arguments ;)
> Currently I have both Linux and Win-2000 under my table,
> and I have no ideological problems with it ;)
> 
> Thank you!
> B.M.
> 
> 
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