Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Verification of audio CD copy?

[Jesús Guerrero]

On Fri, June 5, 2009 12:21, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Jesús Guerrero <i92guboj@×××××.es> wrote:
>
>
>> On Wed, June 3, 2009 22:23, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>>
>>> Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> BTW: this is where you see that cdparranoia(1) is now 12 year old and
>>>  unmaintained since ~ 10 years. cdda2wav -paranoia gives much better
>>> results that cdparanoia.
>>
>> Pardon me for getting in the middle but I am really curious about
>> this. I know that paranoia is old but according to their web page the
>> last update was "September 11, 2008". However maybe it was just a
>> maintenance update to fix compilation errors or something like that.
>
> Correct, there was a mainenance update but cdparanoia is still based on
> a cdda2wav source from 1997.
>
>> I have researched about cdda2wav vs. cdparanoia vs. cdrdao in the past
>> and came to the conclussion that cdparanioa is probably the worst
>> nowadays, however I am not sure it's dead.
>
> cdrdao did not et new features since 4 years and it did not get even a
> maintenance update since 3 years.
>
> cdparanoia is a "patch" on a cdd2wav source from 1997 and there was a lot
>  of activities 'till March 2001 with cdparanoia-III-alpha9.8 since then no
> new features have been introduced and as the project did look completely
> dead, I decided to take the relevent code, make a real portable library
> from it and use it from cdda2wav. This port was done in spring 2002.
>
>
> A year ago, there have been some minor code changes and lot's
> of new comment in the main paranoia code. The new comment has been moved to
> libparanoia for cddawav....


Thanks a lot for clearing that for me. :)


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Jesús Guerrero