[Paranoia] First-track ripping oddity

[Jack Pistachio]

Have you tried without forcing the cd drive speed?
This does indeed sound like a firmware issue and I wonder
if the drive isn't interpreting a cdparanoia cmd well.

--- CJ Kucera <xiph at apocalyptech.com> wrote:
> CJ Kucera wrote:
> > Peter Jones wrote:
> > > I don't suppose you can pull the drive out and see if
> there's any real
> > > manufacturer information on it?
> >
> > Sure, I'll pull it out later today and have a look.
>
> Okay, well the drive looks to be actually manufactured by
> Compaq, or
> at least there's no mention of any other corporation on
> the drive itself.
> Has a Compaq Part No, Compaq Spare Part No, etc.  The
> model no on the
> label itself is "CRD-8322B(CP1)"  I did notice that it
> has labelled
> "F/W: 1.06" which looks like a firmware version to me, so
> I'll look
> around and see if there's a firmware update which may end
> up helping
> out.
>
> > > This vaguely sounds like the sort of thing --toc-bias
> was invented for,
> > > but I'm not completely sure just yet.
>
> I tried out this option, btw, to no avail.  Didn't seem
> to affect anything.
>
> > > It's interesting that cdda2wav doesn't give the
> error.  Is the pop
> > > overlapping real data, or is it simply before it?
> >
> > It happens over actual data.  I could whip up some
> short wav samples
> > if you'd like...
>
> Without waiting for a reply, I just went ahead and did
> that, if you
> wanted to take a brief listen.
>
> No apparent data corruption:
> cdda2wav -S 16 -t 1
> 	http://apocalyptech.com/paranoia/cdda2wav-S16.wav.gz
>
> cdparanoia run without paranoia options has a noticeable
> "pop":
>
> cdparanoia -S 16 -Z 1
> 	http://apocalyptech.com/paranoia/cdparanoia-S16-Z.wav.gz
>
> cdparanoia with any other option has a strange poppy
> distortion:
>
> cdparanoia -S 16 1
> 	http://apocalyptech.com/paranoia/cdparanoia-S16.wav.gz
> cdparanoia -S 16 -Y 1
> 	http://apocalyptech.com/paranoia/cdparanoia-S16-Y.wav.gz
> cdparanoia -S 16 -T 1
> 	http://apocalyptech.com/paranoia/cdparanoia-S16-T.wav.gz
> cdparanoia -S 16 -z 1
> 	http://apocalyptech.com/paranoia/cdparanoia-S16-z.wav.gz
>
> (avg. file size 150K)
>
> So there you have it...
>
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