<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yiv8069996292"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418033779667_22116" style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div id="yiv8069996292yui_3_16_0_1_1418033779667_19245" dir="ltr"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418033779667_22123">Is there a description anywhere of exactly what cdparanoia does when it's trying to deal with scratches on a disc?? I mean that I'd like to understand how it determines that something is an error, and what steps it takes to correct those.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418033779667_22121"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418033779667_22122">I ask because I've always felt a bit paranoid myself ;-) about using it with some of my own work, because I make a lot of pieces that sound a lot like white noise(!) strange as this may sound, and I've often wondered whether the error detection might falsly decide that something is a scratch when it's really just a random moment in a soundfile full of random moments :-).</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418033779667_23016"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418033779667_23015">I asked this one time here a long time ago, but the only answer I got was from a well meaning person (sorry, I forget his name) who simply declared that "no, it won't interpret noise as a scratch" but without any explanation. The explanation I would be very interested in, if I may ask. I should add that sorry, but I'm not a programmer so reading the source code probably won't suffice unless it's really heavily commented (I haven't checked on the assumption that it probably is not).</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418033779667_23911"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418033779667_23912" dir="ltr">I've done searches for this info but have never come across anything that describes what steps it takes exactly, unless I've just misunderstood.<br></div></div><div id="yiv8069996292yui_3_16_0_1_1418033779667_19703" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yiv8069996292yui_3_16_0_1_1418033779667_19704" dir="ltr">Thanks a lot!! And for a nice program!<br></div></div></div></div></body></html>