[Paranoia] Need help making a decent audio copy

[Monty]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 03:27:29PM +0200, Sebastian wrote:
> Over at http://www.accuraterip.com/driveoffsets.htm it says that my
> drive has a Sample Offset of +667. I tried cdparanoia with "-O 667" and
> without and the resulting wav's had different md5 sums so I take it
> cdparanoia doesn't adjust the offset automatically.

Do you get any '+' or '-' markers during ripping?

Most likely what's happening is if things become shifted or jittered
in a section of complete silence, there's no entropy to know it
happened.  If the drive ever returns a '+' or a '-', then it doesn't
have a constant offset.

> After that being said, is the following command
> 
> cdparanoia -z -O 667
> 
> the one that'll give me the best possible copy?

Yes.

Monty