[Paranoia] Re: CD Ripping Uncertainty Again

[Sebastian]

Hi!

On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 06:16:01PM -0500, Alex wrote:
> 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.


Does abcde ( http://www.hispalinux.es/~data/abcde.php ) run on Mac OS X?
I posted a patch to add Test & Copy to abcde at Hydrogenaudio.org. You
can find it here ->
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=42895
in case you're interested.

Sebastian

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