[Paranoia] Re: [Grip-users] [Cdrdao-devel] Hidden "Track 0"

[Jason Noble]

Well now I'm guessing my DVD drive doesnt like reading this hidden
track.

Table of contents (audio tracks only):
track        length               begin        copy pre ch
===========================================================
  1.    24703 [05:29.28]    22337 [04:57.62]    no   no  2
  2.    21535 [04:47.10]    47040 [10:27.15]    no   no  2
  3.    24677 [05:29.02]    68575 [15:14.25]    no   no  2
  4.    15873 [03:31.48]    93252 [20:43.27]    no   no  2
  5.    21437 [04:45.62]   109125 [24:15.00]    no   no  2
  6.    16853 [03:44.53]   130562 [29:00.62]    no   no  2
  7.    17952 [03:59.27]   147415 [32:45.40]    no   no  2
  8.    22333 [04:57.58]   165367 [36:44.67]    no   no  2
  9.    25202 [05:36.02]   187700 [41:42.50]    no   no  2
 10.    39240 [08:43.15]   212902 [47:18.52]    no   no  2
TOTAL  229805 [51:04.05]    (audio only)


cdparanoia '[.0],[.22336]' test.wav


scsi_read error: sector=7 length=13 retry=0
                 Sense key: 5 ASC: 64 ASCQ: 0
                 Transport error: Illegal SCSI request (rejected by
target)
                 System error: Invalid argument
scsi_read error: sector=7 length=6 retry=1
                 Sense key: 5 ASC: 64 ASCQ: 0
                 Transport error: Illegal SCSI request (rejected by
target)
                 System error: Invalid argument
scsi_read error: sector=7 length=3 retry=2
                 Sense key: 5 ASC: 64 ASCQ: 0
                 Transport error: Illegal SCSI request (rejected by
target)
                 System error: Invalid argument
scsi_read error: sector=7 length=1 retry=3
                 Sense key: 5 ASC: 64 ASCQ: 0
                 Transport error: Illegal SCSI request (rejected by
target)
                 System error: Invalid argument
scsi_read error: sector=7 length=1 retry=4
                 Sense key: 5 ASC: 64 ASCQ: 0
                 Transport error: Illegal SCSI request (rejected by
target)
                 System error: Invalid argument
scsi_read error: sector=7 length=1 retry=5
                 Sense key: 5 ASC: 64 ASCQ: 0
                 Transport error: Illegal SCSI request (rejected by
target)
                 System error: Invalid argument
scsi_read error: sector=7 length=1 retry=6
                 Sense key: 5 ASC: 64 ASCQ: 0
                 Transport error: Illegal SCSI request (rejected by
target)
                 System error: Invalid argument
scsi_read error: sector=7 length=1 retry=7
                 Sense key: 5 ASC: 64 ASCQ: 0
                 Transport error: Illegal SCSI request (rejected by
target)
                 System error: Invalid argument
scsi_read error: sector=7 length=1 retry=8
                 Sense key: 5 ASC: 64 ASCQ: 0
                 Transport error: Illegal SCSI request (rejected by
target)
                 System error: Invalid argument


this sucks, does it truly mean its a hardware limitation?

On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 23:08 -0800, Paul Cassella wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Jason Noble wrote:
> 
> > Is there any way to Rip a track that starts before Track 1?
> 
> > To play this track on a regular cd player, I have to hold the rewind
> > button at the start of track 1, and wait for the cd to rewind back 5
> > minutes.
> 
> The vtracks patch can do this:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=572559&group_id=3714&atid=303714
> 
> 
> Another option is to use cdparanoia or possibly cdda2wav from the command 
> line.
> 
> To use cdparanoia for example, it looks like you'd want to do
> 
>    cdparanoia -Q
> 
> to get the table of contents, which might give a hint as to where the 
> hidden track is.
> 
> For example, They Might Be Giants's Factory Showroom has a hidden track 
> like that.  Its table of contents starts like this:
> 
>    track        length               begin        copy pre ch
>    ===========================================================
>      1.    17335 [03:51.10]     4575 [01:01.00]    no   no  2
>      2.    13025 [02:53.50]    21910 [04:52.10]    no   no  2
> 
> Which suggests that the hidden track runs from frame 0 through frame 4574 
> and that
> 
>    cdparanoia '[.0],[.4574]' tbtb.wav
> 
> might be a reasonable command line to start with.
> 
>