Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] Ripping "enhanced" CDs with abcde/cdparanoia

[Lasse Pouru]

Lasse Pouru <lasse.pouru@××××××××××××.fi> writes:

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> Floyd Anderson <f.a@××××.net> writes:
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>> On Sun, 04 Mar 2018 14:01:00 +0200
>> Lasse Pouru <lasse.pouru@××××××××××××.fi> wrote:
>>>You know, the ones with video or software tracks shoehorned into the
>>>end. Whenever I try to rip one with abcde I get the error "selected span
>>>contains non audio track at track X", even when I've chosen a range not
>>>containing track X (e.g. abcde 1-11, 12 being the non-audio track). Grip
>>>rips the same CDs just fine, but I'd prefer to use a command-line
>>>tool. I'm using cdparanoia with both abcde and grip, so is this a bug in
>>>abcde or am I doing something wrong?
>>>
>>
>> That error message seems to come from dev-libs/libcdio-paranoia [1],
>> so you have to ensure that abcde invokes cdparanoia (I assume it’s a
>> symlink to /usr/bin/libcdio-paranoia) with the intended track
>> range/span by looking at the forced debug or verbose output.
>>
>> Or maybe simpler, invoke cdparanoia directly to see which one of the
>> involved parts (wrapper/program) to blame – if your given range/span
>> really contains only audio tracks.
>>
>>
>> References:
>>   - [1] <https://github.com/rocky/libcdio-paranoia/blob/b63fec7/src/cd-paranoia.c#L1199>
>
> Same error when invoking cdparanoia directly. It seems grip includes its
> own version of cdparanoia since it has two cdparanoia options, "grip
> (cdparanoia)" and just "cdparanoia". The first on works, the latter
> doesn't.
>
> I'll try installing the unstable version of libcdio-paranoia in case
> this is a bug that has recently been fixed.

Ok, upgrading libcdio-paranoia and libcdio to unstable versions solved
the problem. It's not even necessary to specify the range when running
abcde, the non-audio tracks are automatically left out.