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