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From: Jake Moe <jakesaddress@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:44:16
Message-Id: 4D3044B0.9070607@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs by Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)
1 On 01/14/11 21:30, Joerg Schilling wrote:
2 > Jake Moe <jakesaddress@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >
4 >>> Since then, cdda2wav combines the best features from both commands. If you like
5 >>> to tell cdda2wav to use the paranoia code, just call cdda2wav -paranoia.
6 >>> Cdda2wav is able to read many CDs that cannot be read by cdparanoia at all.
7 >>>
8 >>> Jörg
9 >> Why do they give me this info, then?
10 > Because cdda2wav is the better choice
11 >
12 >> jmoe@aus8617 ~ $ cdda2wav --version
13 >> cdda2wav 3.00 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1993-2004 Heiko EiÃ
14 >>
15 >> jmoe@aus8617 ~ $ cdparanoia --version
16 >> cdparanoia III release 10.2 (September 11, 2008)
17 >>
18 >> From that, it appears that cdparanoia is newer.
19 > The latest cdparanoia is from 2001. There seem to appear "later" versions but
20 > they do not increase functionality, they just fix some C syntax problems that
21 > prevent compilation with newer GCC versions. But all cdparanoia versions are
22 > based on a cdda2wav from 1997 and thus use outdated read functions.
23 >
24 > The interesting question seems to be: Why do you try to confuse people
25 > regarding to cdda2wav by modifiying it's output?
26 >
27 > cdda2wav-3.0 is from June 2010 and there is even a 3.01a02 from December 2010.
28 >
29 > Jörg
30 >
31 Ok, thanks for the info.
32
33 Jake Moe