[Paranoia] Ripping physically scratched CD's

[Eric Altendorf]

On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Paolo Saggese <pmsa4-xiph at yahoo.it> wrote:

> On 2014-12-05 16:53, xiphmont at xiph.org wrote:
>
> >> refusing to rip a CD that is not perfectly readable is expected
> behavior;
> >> even, in a sense, the design goal.
> >
> > Well, not really.  Refusing to do what a user legitimately wants to do
> > is not a goal to strive for.
>

Yeah, that wasn't what I meant.  Perhaps "refusing" was the wrong word.


>
> perhaps you haven't got the whole point: cdparanoia is not about "just
> ripping" whatever, it is all about *perfect ripping*.
>
> What a typical cdparanoia user expect is that the rip is either perfect
> (a perfect copy of the original) or the whole process fail.
>
> That is, more or less the current default behavior.
>
> If you don't care about rip quality, there are really no reasons to use
> cdparanoia (or libparanoia) in the first place. You can use cdda2wav or
> any other (unsafe) ripping software instead.
>

That's what I meant.


>
> The only objection that I may rise WRT the current behavior is that IMO
> there should be some reasonable check/timeout so that, if a track or CD
> can not be ripped without errors within some reasonable amount of time,
> the software should fail returning a proper error rather than "hanging"
> trying and retrying forever.
>
>
> Paolo.
>
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