Lee wrote: > On Thu, Jun 4, 2026 at 9:38 PM Eben King wrote: > > > cdparanoia/stable 3.10.2+debian-14+b1 amd64 > > > audio extraction tool for sampling CDs > > > > what makes that option so much fun is there's a cdparanoia and a > cd-paranoia. > Is there an actual difference or is this yet another instance of someone > being too [something] to fix whatever so they write another version of the > program from scratch?
cd-paranoia with a dash says: This version uses the libcdio library for interaction with a CD-ROM drive. The jitter and error correction however are the same as used in Xiph's cdparanoia. > (& why is re-implementing something such a thing in linux??) Open source and no central control. > > > On windows the choice was easy.. Exact Audio Copy (EAC) + LAME > > > I found instructions for running EAC with WINE. Is that better than any > > > 'native' app? No. > might change my mind. And Irfanview. Why the **** isn't there an open > source view pretty much any image program for linux? xnview is free, but > not opensource, so I'm still looking for an image viewer .. eog - eye of GNOME eom - eye of MATE ephoto - Enlightened image viewer feh - fast, lightweight image viewer gthumb - advanced image viewer and browser gwenview - for KDE imview - Image viewing and analysis ... and on through the alphabet. Try "apt search image view" -dsr-
