Re: audio CDs and cdrdao vs. cdparanoia

2010-07-06 Thread Mark Allums
First, I would like to second the suggestion of trying Exact Audio Copy (if a Windows environment is available) and comparing those results. +1 Second, I apologize for beating a dead horse, but in the event that a few people read my earlier posts, I wanted to make a correction to what I origi

Re: audio CDs and cdrdao vs. cdparanoia

2010-07-06 Thread Mark
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Mirko Parthey < mirko.part...@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote: [...] > You could compare your results to Exact Audio Copy (Windows, free for > non-commercial use), which reportedly also runs on WINE. > +1. Also if you use EAC with AccurateRip enabled you can ha

Re: audio CDs and cdrdao vs. cdparanoia

2010-07-06 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 10:43:44PM +0200, Urs Thuermann wrote: > For each CD I run > > cdrdao read-cd --datafile data.cdr --device /dev/sg0 toc > and > cdparanoia -d /dev/sg0 -B > > where /dev/sg0 refers to an Plextor Ultraplex 40max SCSI CDROM drive. > > [...] > > I can run cdrd

Re: audio CDs and cdrdao vs. cdparanoia

2010-07-06 Thread Mark Allums
On 7/5/2010 3:43 PM, Urs Thuermann wrote: Now my question is where these [CD-rip] differences come from and which results are the correct (better) ones. Audio CDs live in a world where there is no guarantee that any two passes across a "sector" will ever give the same result. For one thing, th

Re: audio CDs and cdrdao vs. cdparanoia

2010-07-06 Thread Mark Allums
On 7/5/2010 3:43 PM, Urs Thuermann wrote: Now my question is where these [CD-rip] differences come from and which results are the correct (better) ones. Here is a nice web site about CDs. It is about CD-Rs, but it has a lot of general info that anyone can benefit from, including about audio

Re: audio CDs and cdrdao vs. cdparanoia

2010-07-06 Thread Mark Allums
On 7/5/2010 3:43 PM, Urs Thuermann wrote: Now my question is where these [CD-rip] differences come from and which results are the correct (better) ones. Audio CDs live in a world where there is no guarantee that any two passes across a "sector" will ever give the same result. For one thing,

Re: audio CDs and cdrdao vs. cdparanoia

2010-07-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 05 iul 10, 22:43:44, Urs Thuermann wrote: > Now my question is where these differences come from and which results > are the correct (better) ones. From the output to stdout I see that > cdrdao uses the Paranoia DAE library and Joerg Schilling's SCSI > library to actually read the audio C

Re: Audio CDs [solved]

2001-06-08 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 01:05:41PM -0700, David Nusinow wrote: > It depends on which environment you're using. > KDE: kmix > Gnome: gmix > Anything else: xmix > I don't know of any console based ones, although I know they're out there. aumix? Rob -- Do you like "TENDER VITTLE

Re: Audio CDs

2001-06-07 Thread Thomas Weinbrenner
Robert Mosher wrote: > Not too long ago I installed Debian2.2r2 on my computer. Since then > I have slowly been getting things the way I want them. One thing I > have yet to do, and would appreciate any help on, is playing > (mounting) Audio CDs. You don't have to mount an Audio CD if you just wa

Re: Audio CDs

2001-06-07 Thread Dave Thayer
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 09:26:16AM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: > You don't actually need to mount them to play them; others can talk about > the benefits of mounting audio cds. But all you need to do to *play* them > is to run an audio mixer that works with your audio system, and a cd > player. The

Re: Audio CDs

2001-06-07 Thread Andrew Perrin
You don't actually need to mount them to play them; others can talk about the benefits of mounting audio cds. But all you need to do to *play* them is to run an audio mixer that works with your audio system, and a cd player. They read the raw device (generally /dev/cdrom which is a link to /dev/sr0

Re: Audio CDs

2001-06-07 Thread Forrest English
another way to do this.. chmod /dev/cdrom (and it's link) and /dev/dsp to 777 put the cd in, press play on your favorite cd player. audio cds don't need to be mounted to play. -- Forrest English http://truffula.net "When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live Bu

Re: Audio CDs

2001-06-07 Thread David Nusinow
On Monday 04 June 2001 06:12 am, Robert Mosher wrote: > Hi > > Not too long ago I installed Debian2.2r2 on my computer. Since then I have > slowly been getting things the way I want them. One thing I have yet to > do, and would appreciate any help on, is playing (mounting) Audio CDs. > > I don't kn

Re: Audio CDs

2001-06-07 Thread David Nusinow
On Wednesday 06 June 2001 09:39 pm, you wrote: > another way to do this.. > > chmod /dev/cdrom (and it's link) and /dev/dsp to 777 > > put the cd in, press play on your favorite cd player. audio cds don't > need to be mounted to play. > > -- > Forrest English > http://truffula.net > Yeah, but th

Re: Audio CDs [solved]

2001-06-07 Thread David Nusinow
Hi Robert, On Thursday 07 June 2001 06:08 am, Robert Mosher wrote: > I'm now able to play audio CDs and would like to say thanks to every who > gave advice. I ended up solving the problem by giving "others" permission > to read cdrom. Though I do realize this may not be the best solution. I > thi

Re: Audio CDs don't index properly with xcdroast

1999-04-13 Thread Reid Priedhorsky
> [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] is having trouble burning audio CDs using > xcdroast and cdrecord. ] Have you looked into cdrdao? It's designed specifically for audio CD burning and it works great for me. There are debs in slink. -- http://www.macalester.edu/~rpriedhorsky/