[Paranoia] Re: CD Ripping Uncertainty Again

[Alex]

Digging a little further, I found elsewhere quite a few reports of the 
same issue of cdparanoia producing bad rips from scratched CDs without 
reporting problems.

Some argue that the issue is caused by drives caching audio data, and 
that cdparanoia is reliable when the drive isn't caching audio data. 
Unfortunately, I can't test this; the cache on the Plextor drive can be 
disabled with PlexTools, but that only works in Windows, and I don't 
know how to disable the cache under Mac OS X.

One possibility might be simply to extract the same track several 
times, and verify if there are any differences. But it seems rather 
laborious. Maybe rubyripper

<http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyripper/>

which automates this process is more convenient, but I couldn't get it 
to work.

So it seems that EAC on Windows is really the only secure ripping 
solution. Too bad...

thanx