cdparanoia is a
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ripper
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for
*nix and
BeOS
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, developed by
Xiph.org
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. It is designed to be a
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, high-quality CD ripper that would be able to compensate for and adjust to poor hardware to produce a flawless rip.
libparanoia is a portable and platform-independent library that was made from the important parts ripped from the Linux/gcc-only program cdparanoia. Libparanoia is part of
cdrtools
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The project was maintained for over two decades by Jörg Schilling, who died on October 10, 2021.
Because of some ...
.
Design
libparanoia is the foundation of the project and does most of the work, whereas the application cdparanoia is merely an application
frontend to libparanoia. The current stable release of the library is Paranoia III.
The guiding principle of cdparanoia's design is "Too many features spoil the broth". cdparanoia is designed to rip correctly and know as much as possible about the
CD-ROM hardware instead of implementing extraneous features such as a
graphical user interface
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or a
CDDB
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interface.
Development history
cdparanoia is developed by
Xiph.org
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, the same team behind
Vorbis
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and
Theora
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, who provide public
Subversion
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read-only access. The project began as a set of patches to
cdda2wav
cdrtools (formerly known as cdrecord) is a collection of independent projects of free software/open source computer programs.
The project was maintained for over two decades by Jörg Schilling, who died on October 10, 2021.
Because of some ...
, called Paranoia I and II that provided limited error correction and supported few drives. Paranoia III, (January 1998), was a standalone library for BeOS and Linux.
Status indicators
One of the quirks of cdparanoia is that its ripping status is indicated by an
emoticon
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. As per the cdparanoia manual, the following emoticons are used:
:-) Normal operation, low/no jitter
:-, Normal operation, considerable jitter
:-/ Read drift
:-P Unreported loss of streaming in atomic read operation
8-, Finding read problems at same point during re-read; hard to correct
:-0 SCSI/ATAPI transport error
:-( Scratch detected
;-( Gave up trying to perform a correction
8-X Aborted read due to known, uncorrectable error
:^D Finished extracting
See also
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Compact disc digital audio
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*
Cdrtools
cdrtools (formerly known as cdrecord) is a collection of independent projects of free software/open source computer programs.
The project was maintained for over two decades by Jörg Schilling, who died on October 10, 2021.
Because of some ...
*
cdrkit
cdrkit is a collection of computer programs for CD and DVD authoring that work on Unix-like systems.
cdrkit is released under the GNU General Public License version 2.
Fedora, Gentoo Linux, Mandriva Linux, and Ubuntu all include cdrkit.
Joerg J ...
*
Exact Audio Copy
*
Sound Juicer
Notes
External links
CDDA Paranoia Homepagecdparanoia Hydrogenaudio page
{{Media player (application software), free
Linux CD ripping software
Console CD ripping software
Xiph.Org projects