cdparanoia is a

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ripper for *nix and

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, developed by

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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

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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

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hardware instead of implementing extraneous features such as a

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or a CDDB interface.

Development history

cdparanoia is developed by

, the same team behind

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and

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, who provide public

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read-only access. The project began as a set of patches to

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, 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. 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

Notes

External links

CDDA Paranoia Homepage

cdparanoia Hydrogenaudio page
{{Media player (application software), free Linux CD ripping software Console CD ripping software Xiph.Org projects

Design

Development history

Status indicators

See also

Notes

External links