[Paranoia] buffer underruns?

[Forest Bond]

Hi,

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 02:09:08PM -0400, Forest Bond wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 01:48:34PM -0400, Forest Bond wrote:
> > I occasionally hear what sound like small buffer underruns in files ripped with
> > cdparanoia using the default options.  Re-ripping gives me a good file.
> > 
> > Is it possible that buffer underruns are occuring and cdparanoia can't do
> > anything about it?  Can I tell cdparanoia to keep re-ripping the track until it
> > gets two identical copies?
> 
> Just to justify/clarify, I ripped the same audio track twenty times and diffed
> each of the resulting .wav files.  I found that one of those files was different
> from all the others, even though cdparanoia's output and return code was
> identical in all cases.
> 
> My cdparanoia --version is "cdparanoia III release 10pre0 (August 29, 2006)".
> 
> I'm contemplating writing a shell script that wraps cdparanoia and performs the
> requested rip three times, only keeping one set of files for which the same
> result was obtained by one other rip.
> 
> Thoughts?  Is this unnecessary?  Is it my drive's fault?

Did anyone have any input on this?  Should I write a wrapper for cdparanoia that
double-checks its work?

-Forest
-- 
Forest Bond
http://www.alittletooquiet.net
http://www.pytagsfs.org
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