[Paranoia] CD Ripping Uncertainty Principle?

[Bill Davidsen]

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Monty wrote:


> > (And at the risk of committing heresy:
> > given that one has a particular drive, is there then better ripping
> > software than cdparanoia around?)
> 
> Perhaps not better, but certainly 'different'.  EAC can get C2 error
> reports from Plextor and a couple other drives.  EAC is geenrally more
> trusting of drives than Paranoia, but it also takes more advantage of
> drive features.
> 
> Older versions of Paranoia (version 2) would attempt to track
> 'unstable' bits in individual samples and implemented 'loose' matching
> to accomidate this.  Paranoia 3 didn;t do it this way primarily
> because it caused bad reads on some drives.  The dangers of heuristics
> :-)

You may find that "readcd" with the -c2scan option will tell you a lot
about the base quality of the burn. I use it to check my backup (data, not
audio) burns.

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bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.