Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-14 Thread Joerg Schilling
pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote:

 On 2011-01-13 20:14, J. Roeleveld wrote:

  They are easy to spot though as only CDs adhering to the red book standard 
  are 
  legally allowed to display the Audio-CD logo.

 Yeah, I read about Philips talking to the music industry about this a
 few years ago, claiming they would take them to court (or something) if
 they didn't adhere to the standard... if they wanted the audio cd logo.

There is even more: Sony sells CDs that claim(*) that Sony did not have the 
Copyrights in the songs while making the copy.

*) Following the description for the copy protection bit in the red book.

From a perspective of consumer protection, consumers could sue shops not to 
mix 
non-CDs with CDs in the same rack and to clearly mark the non-CDs with 
something like: these are non-CDs, we cannot grant playability in CD players.
But unfortunately nothing happened to protect consumers.

  For the deviations, blame the record companies who still think that people 
  are 
  willing to pay way over the odds for substandard music...

 Well, considering IFPI/*AA etc. behaviour I'm thinking of skipping
 buying anything at all; I can live without (use the ones that I have,
 which seems to be standard since I've been able to rip them all to my
 'puter using cdparanoia).

You completely missunderstand the purpose and ability of cdparanoia. Cdparanoia 
does not implement anything that helps you to read such non-CDs. If you could 
read all your CDs so far, you either don't own such intentionally broken media 
or there is a workaround in the firmware of your drive already.

cdparanoia _only_ implements strategies to work around flaky readout results.

The non-CDs have intentional deviations from the red book standard and for this 
reason, there is nothing flaky on them. They produce stable deviating results 
that cannot be handled by cdparanoia.

cdda2wav on the other side implements strategies to work around varios red book 
deviations that help to read such non-standard media.

It is the read layer (being below the paranoia layer) that is bad inside 
cdparanoia and the read layer has been significantly inreased inside cdda2wav 
during the past 14 years after cdparanoia forked cdda2wav.

Jörg

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Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-14 Thread Jake Moe
On 01/13/11 22:32, Joerg Schilling wrote:
 J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:

 On Thursday 13 January 2011 12:07:02 Joerg Schilling wrote:
 J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:
 Can you actually play that wav-file? Or is it just a collection of
 garbage?

 As far as I know, CD-Paranoia access the cd-drive a bit more directly
 then other tools. Eg. it approaches it like a CD-ROM, rather then
 CD-Audio.
 You are mistaken, cdparanoia is a patch on a really outdated cdda2wav (from
 1997) and it is limited to the DAE quality of the kernel drivers.
 Ok, I stand corrected. I did, however, always have more succes ripping music 
 from audio-cds with cdparanoia then with other tools I tried.
 Then you did probably not recently try cdda2wav. After the development for 
 cdparanoia stopped in year 2000, cdda2wav integrated the important code parts
 from cdparanoia into cdda2wav by creating a portable library libparanoia in 
 April 2002.

 Since then, cdda2wav combines the best features from both commands. If you 
 like 
 to tell cdda2wav to use the paranoia code, just call cdda2wav -paranoia. 
 Cdda2wav is able to read many CDs that cannot be read by cdparanoia at all.

 Jörg
Why do they give me this info, then?

jmoe@aus8617 ~ $ cdda2wav --version
cdda2wav 3.00 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1993-2004 Heiko EiÃ

jmoe@aus8617 ~ $ cdparanoia --version
cdparanoia III release 10.2 (September 11, 2008)

From that, it appears that cdparanoia is newer.

Jake Moe



Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-14 Thread Jake Moe
On 01/13/11 20:48, J. Roeleveld wrote:
 On Thursday 13 January 2011 11:33:09 Jake Moe wrote:
 On 01/13/11 18:12, J. Roeleveld wrote:
 On Thursday 13 January 2011 07:12:48 Jake Moe wrote:
 If you're talking about proper Audio-CD as one that's audio-only, no
 mixed data in there as well, then yes, I'm sure.  And I have over 500
 CDs; I can't test them all.  :-P  But yeah, a selection of CDs have all
 had the same result.  And only on Linux; the same CDs have read fine
 from Windows.
 500, that's a bit more then I have :)
 Heh, yeah, well I've been collecting them for around 20 years now.
 Since shortly after they were introduced.  I stopped counting at 500.

 The mp3 error screenshot was trying to copy the MP3 files from the CD
 through Konqueror's audiocd:\ location to my hard drive.  I assume
 Konqueror tries to auto-convert the CD tracks to MP3s on the fly.  The
 log file I had attached should have been called messages.bz2; it's the
 kernel log file.
 Yes, I noticed similar behaviour last time I used MS Windows to play
 audio- CDs. I believe MS Windows 98 (yes, that long ago) used to present
 them as *.WAV-files,
 Don't know if you've ever used Konqueror, but if you go to the address
 audiocd:/, it gives you a load of folders like MP3 and OGG and FLAC,
 along with a wav file for each track.  So you can either copy the files
 as WAV, or go into one of the folders and copy out MP3, OGG, etc.  It's
 just that Konqueror does the extraction/conversion for you.
 As far as I know, that requires the multimedia kioslaves to work. I wonder if 
 it's possible to have that use a different CDDA-tool?

 Which, from memory, is different that Win98.  IIRC, Win98 used to
 present CDs as 1KB cda files.  I could be wrong, though...
 Last time I used MS Windows at home for anything other then games was around 
 1998 and that's quite a while ago...

 Oh, and I only own a few CDs that have DRM on them.  And no, they
 weren't the ones that I've tested.
 Ok, it was the first thing that came to mind.

 How far does cdparanoia get? That's the tool I generally use and it has
 always worked for me. Even with DRM'd CDs.

 --
 Joost
 How very odd.  As soon as I put the CD into the drive, I get the same
 raft of error messages in /var/log/messages.  But when I run 'cdparanoia
 1', it starts outputting to cdda.wav as normal.  Now why would
 cdparanoia work, even though the kernel doesn't seem to like the CD?
 Does this tell us anything that might help me play the CDs?

 Jake Moe
 Can you actually play that wav-file? Or is it just a collection of garbage?

 As far as I know, CD-Paranoia access the cd-drive a bit more directly then 
 other tools. Eg. it approaches it like a CD-ROM, rather then CD-Audio.

 The error messages appear as soon as you put the CD into the drive?
 Am wondering if some auto-mounting tool is trying to access it and is causing 
 problems here.
 Do you also get those messages when you disable all KDE/Gnome/X/... and 
 related stuff?

 Personally, I tend to use cdparanoia and other tools to generate OGG or MP3 
 files and store them on a fileserver and play them from there.

 --
 Joost

Yeah, the wav file played fine.  At least, it started out fine; I only
listened to the first 15 - 30 seconds to make sure it sounded ok, and
then assumed the rest was fine, since nothing else had even gotten that far.

And yeah, the errors start as soon as I put the CD in the drive.  What
automounting tool might I have in FVWM?  I use a pretty basic config
(which is why I like FVWM, not many frills to muck things up :-P).

What KDE/Gnome/X stuff are you talking about?  Unless they're
auto-started by a service, I don't know of anything that'd be running
like that, especially from a console.

Jake Moe



Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-14 Thread Joerg Schilling
Jake Moe jakesaddr...@gmail.com wrote:

  Since then, cdda2wav combines the best features from both commands. If you 
  like 
  to tell cdda2wav to use the paranoia code, just call cdda2wav -paranoia. 
  Cdda2wav is able to read many CDs that cannot be read by cdparanoia at all.
 
  Jörg
 Why do they give me this info, then?

Because cdda2wav is the better choice

 jmoe@aus8617 ~ $ cdda2wav --version
 cdda2wav 3.00 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1993-2004 Heiko EiÃ

 jmoe@aus8617 ~ $ cdparanoia --version
 cdparanoia III release 10.2 (September 11, 2008)

 From that, it appears that cdparanoia is newer.

The latest cdparanoia is from 2001. There seem to appear later versions but 
they do not increase functionality, they just fix some C syntax problems that 
prevent compilation with newer GCC versions. But all cdparanoia versions are 
based on a cdda2wav from 1997 and thus use outdated read functions.

The interesting question seems to be: Why do you try to confuse people 
regarding to cdda2wav by modifiying it's output?

cdda2wav-3.0 is from June 2010 and there is even a 3.01a02 from December 2010.

Jörg

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Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-14 Thread Joerg Schilling
Jake Moe jakesaddr...@gmail.com wrote:

 Yeah, the wav file played fine.  At least, it started out fine; I only
 listened to the first 15 - 30 seconds to make sure it sounded ok, and
 then assumed the rest was fine, since nothing else had even gotten that far.

Be careful!

There is a set of red-book deviations that is called cactus datashield

cdparanoia will not extract more than 40 seconds from such a CD regardless of 
the drive you are using.

With cdda2wav you will be able to extract the whole CD as long as the drive 
is not cunfused by the media and as long as you don't run hostile software like 
hald or similar that helps to confuse the drive.


Jörg

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Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-14 Thread Jake Moe
On 01/14/11 21:30, Joerg Schilling wrote:
 Jake Moe jakesaddr...@gmail.com wrote:

 Since then, cdda2wav combines the best features from both commands. If you 
 like 
 to tell cdda2wav to use the paranoia code, just call cdda2wav -paranoia. 
 Cdda2wav is able to read many CDs that cannot be read by cdparanoia at all.

 Jörg
 Why do they give me this info, then?
 Because cdda2wav is the better choice

 jmoe@aus8617 ~ $ cdda2wav --version
 cdda2wav 3.00 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1993-2004 Heiko EiÃ

 jmoe@aus8617 ~ $ cdparanoia --version
 cdparanoia III release 10.2 (September 11, 2008)

 From that, it appears that cdparanoia is newer.
 The latest cdparanoia is from 2001. There seem to appear later versions but 
 they do not increase functionality, they just fix some C syntax problems that 
 prevent compilation with newer GCC versions. But all cdparanoia versions are 
 based on a cdda2wav from 1997 and thus use outdated read functions.

 The interesting question seems to be: Why do you try to confuse people 
 regarding to cdda2wav by modifiying it's output?

 cdda2wav-3.0 is from June 2010 and there is even a 3.01a02 from December 2010.

 Jörg

Ok, thanks for the info.

Jake Moe



Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 5:13 AM, Jake Moe jakesaddr...@gmail.com wrote:
 Why do they give me this info, then?

 jmoe@aus8617 ~ $ cdda2wav --version
 cdda2wav 3.00 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1993-2004 Heiko EiÃ

Not sure why your cdda2wav --version output is cut off, maybe an
terminal encoding problem? For version 3.00 I've got this:
$ cdda2wav --version
cdda2wav 3.00 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1993-2004 Heiko
EiÃfeldt (C) 2004-2010 Jörg Schilling

Which is obviously the wrong characters, too. It should say Heiko
Eißfeldt and Jörg Schilling.

But maybe it was not only a problem for us, because they changed the
spelling to use more simplified characters later. The latest version
in ~amd64 shows me this instead:
 $ cdda2wav --version
cdda2wav 3.01a02 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1993-2004
Heiko Eissfeldt (C) 2004-2010 Joerg Schilling



Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-13 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 13 January 2011 07:12:48 Jake Moe wrote:
 
 If you're talking about proper Audio-CD as one that's audio-only, no
 mixed data in there as well, then yes, I'm sure.  And I have over 500
 CDs; I can't test them all.  :-P  But yeah, a selection of CDs have all
 had the same result.  And only on Linux; the same CDs have read fine
 from Windows.

500, that's a bit more then I have :)

 The mp3 error screenshot was trying to copy the MP3 files from the CD
 through Konqueror's audiocd:\ location to my hard drive.  I assume
 Konqueror tries to auto-convert the CD tracks to MP3s on the fly.  The
 log file I had attached should have been called messages.bz2; it's the
 kernel log file.

Yes, I noticed similar behaviour last time I used MS Windows to play audio-
CDs. I believe MS Windows 98 (yes, that long ago) used to present them as 
*.WAV-files,

 Oh, and I only own a few CDs that have DRM on them.  And no, they
 weren't the ones that I've tested.

Ok, it was the first thing that came to mind.

How far does cdparanoia get? That's the tool I generally use and it has 
always worked for me. Even with DRM'd CDs.

--
Joost



Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-13 Thread Jake Moe
On 01/13/11 18:12, J. Roeleveld wrote:
 On Thursday 13 January 2011 07:12:48 Jake Moe wrote:
 If you're talking about proper Audio-CD as one that's audio-only, no
 mixed data in there as well, then yes, I'm sure.  And I have over 500
 CDs; I can't test them all.  :-P  But yeah, a selection of CDs have all
 had the same result.  And only on Linux; the same CDs have read fine
 from Windows.
 500, that's a bit more then I have :)
Heh, yeah, well I've been collecting them for around 20 years now. 
Since shortly after they were introduced.  I stopped counting at 500.
 The mp3 error screenshot was trying to copy the MP3 files from the CD
 through Konqueror's audiocd:\ location to my hard drive.  I assume
 Konqueror tries to auto-convert the CD tracks to MP3s on the fly.  The
 log file I had attached should have been called messages.bz2; it's the
 kernel log file.
 Yes, I noticed similar behaviour last time I used MS Windows to play audio-
 CDs. I believe MS Windows 98 (yes, that long ago) used to present them as 
 *.WAV-files,
Don't know if you've ever used Konqueror, but if you go to the address
audiocd:/, it gives you a load of folders like MP3 and OGG and FLAC,
along with a wav file for each track.  So you can either copy the files
as WAV, or go into one of the folders and copy out MP3, OGG, etc.  It's
just that Konqueror does the extraction/conversion for you.

Which, from memory, is different that Win98.  IIRC, Win98 used to
present CDs as 1KB cda files.  I could be wrong, though...
 Oh, and I only own a few CDs that have DRM on them.  And no, they
 weren't the ones that I've tested.
 Ok, it was the first thing that came to mind.

 How far does cdparanoia get? That's the tool I generally use and it has 
 always worked for me. Even with DRM'd CDs.

 --
 Joost
How very odd.  As soon as I put the CD into the drive, I get the same
raft of error messages in /var/log/messages.  But when I run 'cdparanoia
1', it starts outputting to cdda.wav as normal.  Now why would
cdparanoia work, even though the kernel doesn't seem to like the CD? 
Does this tell us anything that might help me play the CDs?

Jake Moe



Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-13 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 13 January 2011 11:33:09 Jake Moe wrote:
 On 01/13/11 18:12, J. Roeleveld wrote:
  On Thursday 13 January 2011 07:12:48 Jake Moe wrote:
  If you're talking about proper Audio-CD as one that's audio-only, no
  mixed data in there as well, then yes, I'm sure.  And I have over 500
  CDs; I can't test them all.  :-P  But yeah, a selection of CDs have all
  had the same result.  And only on Linux; the same CDs have read fine
  from Windows.
  
  500, that's a bit more then I have :)
 
 Heh, yeah, well I've been collecting them for around 20 years now.
 Since shortly after they were introduced.  I stopped counting at 500.
 
  The mp3 error screenshot was trying to copy the MP3 files from the CD
  through Konqueror's audiocd:\ location to my hard drive.  I assume
  Konqueror tries to auto-convert the CD tracks to MP3s on the fly.  The
  log file I had attached should have been called messages.bz2; it's the
  kernel log file.
  
  Yes, I noticed similar behaviour last time I used MS Windows to play
  audio- CDs. I believe MS Windows 98 (yes, that long ago) used to present
  them as *.WAV-files,
 
 Don't know if you've ever used Konqueror, but if you go to the address
 audiocd:/, it gives you a load of folders like MP3 and OGG and FLAC,
 along with a wav file for each track.  So you can either copy the files
 as WAV, or go into one of the folders and copy out MP3, OGG, etc.  It's
 just that Konqueror does the extraction/conversion for you.

As far as I know, that requires the multimedia kioslaves to work. I wonder if 
it's possible to have that use a different CDDA-tool?

 Which, from memory, is different that Win98.  IIRC, Win98 used to
 present CDs as 1KB cda files.  I could be wrong, though...

Last time I used MS Windows at home for anything other then games was around 
1998 and that's quite a while ago...

  Oh, and I only own a few CDs that have DRM on them.  And no, they
  weren't the ones that I've tested.
  
  Ok, it was the first thing that came to mind.
  
  How far does cdparanoia get? That's the tool I generally use and it has
  always worked for me. Even with DRM'd CDs.
  
  --
  Joost
 
 How very odd.  As soon as I put the CD into the drive, I get the same
 raft of error messages in /var/log/messages.  But when I run 'cdparanoia
 1', it starts outputting to cdda.wav as normal.  Now why would
 cdparanoia work, even though the kernel doesn't seem to like the CD?
 Does this tell us anything that might help me play the CDs?
 
 Jake Moe

Can you actually play that wav-file? Or is it just a collection of garbage?

As far as I know, CD-Paranoia access the cd-drive a bit more directly then 
other tools. Eg. it approaches it like a CD-ROM, rather then CD-Audio.

The error messages appear as soon as you put the CD into the drive?
Am wondering if some auto-mounting tool is trying to access it and is causing 
problems here.
Do you also get those messages when you disable all KDE/Gnome/X/... and 
related stuff?

Personally, I tend to use cdparanoia and other tools to generate OGG or MP3 
files and store them on a fileserver and play them from there.

--
Joost



Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-13 Thread Joerg Schilling
J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:

 Can you actually play that wav-file? Or is it just a collection of garbage?

 As far as I know, CD-Paranoia access the cd-drive a bit more directly then 
 other tools. Eg. it approaches it like a CD-ROM, rather then CD-Audio.

You are mistaken, cdparanoia is a patch on a really outdated cdda2wav (from 
1997) and it is limited to the DAE quality of the kernel drivers.

In year 2000, cdda2wav was renewed to use libscg for sending RAW pass-through 
SCSI commands directly to the drives. cdda23wav for this reason can make use of 
special knowlede for various drives and deliveres the best DAE quality on Linux 
I am aware of.

Jörg

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Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-13 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 13 January 2011 12:07:02 Joerg Schilling wrote:
 J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:
  Can you actually play that wav-file? Or is it just a collection of
  garbage?
  
  As far as I know, CD-Paranoia access the cd-drive a bit more directly
  then other tools. Eg. it approaches it like a CD-ROM, rather then
  CD-Audio.
 
 You are mistaken, cdparanoia is a patch on a really outdated cdda2wav (from
 1997) and it is limited to the DAE quality of the kernel drivers.

Ok, I stand corrected. I did, however, always have more succes ripping music 
from audio-cds with cdparanoia then with other tools I tried.

 In year 2000, cdda2wav was renewed to use libscg for sending RAW
 pass-through SCSI commands directly to the drives. cdda23wav for this
 reason can make use of special knowlede for various drives and deliveres
 the best DAE quality on Linux I am aware of.

Will have to look into these :)

--
Joost



Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-13 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 13 January 2011 12:07:02 Joerg Schilling wrote:
 J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:
  Can you actually play that wav-file? Or is it just a collection of
  garbage?
  
  As far as I know, CD-Paranoia access the cd-drive a bit more directly
  then other tools. Eg. it approaches it like a CD-ROM, rather then
  CD-Audio.
 
 You are mistaken, cdparanoia is a patch on a really outdated cdda2wav (from
 1997) and it is limited to the DAE quality of the kernel drivers.
 
 In year 2000, cdda2wav was renewed to use libscg for sending RAW
 pass-through SCSI commands directly to the drives. cdda23wav for this
 reason can make use of special knowlede for various drives and deliveres
 the best DAE quality on Linux I am aware of.
 
 Jörg

Jörg,

From the FAQ on cdparanoia's website (http://xiph.org/paranoia/faq.html) it 
looks like that it's not based on cdda2wav, but actually uses a re-write of 
cdda2wav since January 1998.

If this is the case, does it still have inferior quality compared to 
cdda23wav?

--
Joost



Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-13 Thread Joerg Schilling
J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:

 From the FAQ on cdparanoia's website (http://xiph.org/paranoia/faq.html) it 
 looks like that it's not based on cdda2wav, but actually uses a re-write of 
 cdda2wav since January 1998.

 If this is the case, does it still have inferior quality compared to 
 cdda23wav?

This is not true, it uses the mainly unmodified code from cdda2wav and just 
added the paranoia code (written nonportably and such only usable if you 
compile with gcc on Linux and a few other OS) and cdparanoia restructured the 
open device code compared to the old cdda2wav.

cdda2wav gives inferior quality compared to cdparanoia and is still actively 
maintained. 

Jörg

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Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-13 Thread Joerg Schilling
J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:

 On Thursday 13 January 2011 12:07:02 Joerg Schilling wrote:
  J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:
   Can you actually play that wav-file? Or is it just a collection of
   garbage?
   
   As far as I know, CD-Paranoia access the cd-drive a bit more directly
   then other tools. Eg. it approaches it like a CD-ROM, rather then
   CD-Audio.
  
  You are mistaken, cdparanoia is a patch on a really outdated cdda2wav (from
  1997) and it is limited to the DAE quality of the kernel drivers.

 Ok, I stand corrected. I did, however, always have more succes ripping music 
 from audio-cds with cdparanoia then with other tools I tried.

Then you did probably not recently try cdda2wav. After the development for 
cdparanoia stopped in year 2000, cdda2wav integrated the important code parts
from cdparanoia into cdda2wav by creating a portable library libparanoia in 
April 2002.

Since then, cdda2wav combines the best features from both commands. If you like 
to tell cdda2wav to use the paranoia code, just call cdda2wav -paranoia. 
Cdda2wav is able to read many CDs that cannot be read by cdparanoia at all.



Jörg

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Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-13 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 13 January 2011 13:37:04 Joerg Schilling wrote:
 J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:
  From the FAQ on cdparanoia's website (http://xiph.org/paranoia/faq.html)
  it looks like that it's not based on cdda2wav, but actually uses a
  re-write of cdda2wav since January 1998.
  
  If this is the case, does it still have inferior quality compared to
  cdda23wav?
 
 This is not true, it uses the mainly unmodified code from cdda2wav and just
 added the paranoia code (written nonportably and such only usable if you
 compile with gcc on Linux and a few other OS) and cdparanoia restructured
 the open device code compared to the old cdda2wav.
 
 cdda2wav gives inferior quality compared to cdparanoia and is still
 actively maintained.
 
 Jörg

Thank you :)
I never really checked, just found that it worked better then other tools that 
were available when I wanted to convert my CDs to MP3.

I'll look into the others and see if I actually hear a difference personally. 
If yes, I'll have another project...

--
Joost



Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:37:04 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:

 cdda2wav gives inferior quality compared to cdparanoia and is still
 actively maintained. 

Did you really mean to write that?


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Never sleep with anyone crazier than yourself.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-13 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
wick n...@digimed.co.uk:
 On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:37:04 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:

 cdda2wav gives inferior quality compared to cdparanoia and is still
 actively maintained.

 Did you really mean to write that?

Probably s/inferior/superior/

-- 
Daniel Pielmeier



Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-13 Thread Joerg Schilling
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:

 On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:37:04 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:

  cdda2wav gives inferior quality compared to cdparanoia and is still
  actively maintained. 

 Did you really mean to write that?

Of course: no, I wanted to write superior ;-)

Jörg

-- 
 EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin
   j...@cs.tu-berlin.de(uni)  
   joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: 
http://schily.blogspot.com/
 URL:  http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily



Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:25:08 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:

   cdda2wav gives inferior quality compared to cdparanoia and is still
   actively maintained.   
 
  Did you really mean to write that?  
 
 Of course: no, I wanted to write superior ;-)

As a sales pitch, it did seem rather lacking ;-)


-- 
Neil Bothwick

WinErr 042: Virus error - A virus has been activated in a dos-box. The
virus, however, requires Windows. All tasks will automatically be closed
and the virus will be activated again.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-13 Thread Joerg Schilling
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:

 On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:25:08 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:

cdda2wav gives inferior quality compared to cdparanoia and is still
actively maintained.   
  
   Did you really mean to write that?  
  
  Of course: no, I wanted to write superior ;-)

 As a sales pitch, it did seem rather lacking ;-)

Which program does lack what?

Jörg

-- 
 EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin
   j...@cs.tu-berlin.de(uni)  
   joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: 
http://schily.blogspot.com/
 URL:  http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
-.



Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-13 Thread pk
On 2011-01-13 16:01, Joerg Schilling wrote:

 Which program does lack what?

As I understand it, he refered to what you wrote (i.e. the sales
pitch) not to any program...

But I'm a bit curious about how cdparanoia and cdda2wav can be
inferior/superior at all; they both read the same _digital_ data no?

MfG

Peter K



Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-13 Thread Joerg Schilling
pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote:

 On 2011-01-13 16:01, Joerg Schilling wrote:

  Which program does lack what?

 As I understand it, he refered to what you wrote (i.e. the sales
 pitch) not to any program...

 But I'm a bit curious about how cdparanoia and cdda2wav can be
 inferior/superior at all; they both read the same _digital_ data no?

cdparanoia calls the kernel ioctl interface for DAE and this is definitely 
inferior to what cdda2wav does.

cdda2wav nows aabout vendor unique SCSI commands that give better results and 
it knows about various defects and deviations from the Red book standard.
With this knowledge, it is able to extract things typically better and in many 
cases it is able to read the CD at all even though the kernel ictl interface 
will fail due to massive redbook deviations on the medium.

Jörg

-- 
 EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin
   j...@cs.tu-berlin.de(uni)  
   joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: 
http://schily.blogspot.com/
 URL:  http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily



Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-13 Thread pk
On 2011-01-13 17:54, Joerg Schilling wrote:

 cdda2wav nows aabout vendor unique SCSI commands that give better results and 
 it knows about various defects and deviations from the Red book standard.
 With this knowledge, it is able to extract things typically better and in 
 many 
 cases it is able to read the CD at all even though the kernel ictl interface 
 will fail due to massive redbook deviations on the medium.

Ok, thanks for the explanation! It's a bit disappointing that there are
deviations from the red book standard though...

MfG

Peter K



Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-13 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 13 January 2011 19:12:05 pk wrote:
 On 2011-01-13 17:54, Joerg Schilling wrote:
  cdda2wav nows aabout vendor unique SCSI commands that give better results
  and it knows about various defects and deviations from the Red book
  standard. With this knowledge, it is able to extract things typically
  better and in many cases it is able to read the CD at all even though
  the kernel ictl interface will fail due to massive redbook deviations on
  the medium.
 
 Ok, thanks for the explanation! It's a bit disappointing that there are
 deviations from the red book standard though...
 
 MfG
 
 Peter K

They are easy to spot though as only CDs adhering to the red book standard are 
legally allowed to display the Audio-CD logo.

For the deviations, blame the record companies who still think that people are 
willing to pay way over the odds for substandard music...

--
Joost



Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-13 Thread pk
On 2011-01-13 20:14, J. Roeleveld wrote:

 They are easy to spot though as only CDs adhering to the red book standard 
 are 
 legally allowed to display the Audio-CD logo.

Yeah, I read about Philips talking to the music industry about this a
few years ago, claiming they would take them to court (or something) if
they didn't adhere to the standard... if they wanted the audio cd logo.

 For the deviations, blame the record companies who still think that people 
 are 
 willing to pay way over the odds for substandard music...

Well, considering IFPI/*AA etc. behaviour I'm thinking of skipping
buying anything at all; I can live without (use the ones that I have,
which seems to be standard since I've been able to rip them all to my
'puter using cdparanoia).

Best regards

Peter K



Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-12 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 10 January 2011 10:48:56 Jake Moe wrote:
 I can't seem to get audio CDs to work with my drive.  Data CDs work
 fine, I can mount the filesystem and read them.  Data and Video DVDs
 seem to work fine as well.  But when I try to listen to an audio CD, I
 get the attached errors in log.bz2.  I've tried using things from KsCD
 to cdplay; everything gives the same errors.  Googling seems to indicate
 that there might be a problem with udev somehow, but most of those that
 I find have the fix as update to the latest udev using apt/rpm/other
 binary distro package tool, which obviously won't work for Gentoo.
 Other solutions seem to be update to libATA, but I'm already using that.
 
 I've gone through and tried to check anything obvious in my kernel
 config, but I can't see anything that'd affect it like this.  Also, if I
 reboot into Windows (this laptop is a work computer as well), it plays
 and rips the same CDs just fine.
 
 Hardware is an HP EliteBook nc6930p laptop.  CD/DVD drive is /dev/sr0.
 Controller is:
 
 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI
 Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
 Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30dc
 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 46
 I/O ports at 8118 [size=8]
 I/O ports at 813c [size=4]
 I/O ports at 8110 [size=8]
 I/O ports at 8138 [size=4]
 I/O ports at 8000 [size=32]
 Memory at d8426000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
 Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/16 Maskable- 64bit-
 Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 3
 Capabilities: [a8] SATA HBA ?
 Capabilities: [b0] PCI Advanced Features
 Kernel driver in use: ahci
 
 Oddly, if I open Konqueror and type in audiocd:/, it lists the tracks,
 and has the FLAC, MP3, Ogg, etc folders.  But it won't play or copy the
 files; it gives the error in error.gif.
 
 Any other info you need, please let me know.  This is driving me nuts.
 
 Jake Moe

Are you sure it is a proper audio-cd?
The error message talks about a mp3-file.

Do you have this issue with all Audio-CDs? (including older ones from before 
record companies thought it was a good idea to add copy-protection schemes?)

--
Joost



Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 3:48 AM, Jake Moe jakesaddr...@gmail.com wrote:
 I can't seem to get audio CDs to work with my drive.  Data CDs work
 fine, I can mount the filesystem and read them.  Data and Video DVDs
 seem to work fine as well.  But when I try to listen to an audio CD, I
 get the attached errors in log.bz2.  I've tried using things from KsCD
 to cdplay; everything gives the same errors.  Googling seems to indicate
 that there might be a problem with udev somehow, but most of those that
 I find have the fix as update to the latest udev using apt/rpm/other
 binary distro package tool, which obviously won't work for Gentoo.
 Other solutions seem to be update to libATA, but I'm already using that.

 I've gone through and tried to check anything obvious in my kernel
 config, but I can't see anything that'd affect it like this.  Also, if I
 reboot into Windows (this laptop is a work computer as well), it plays
 and rips the same CDs just fine.

I wonder if udev is creating the correct device nodes for the cdrom?
What are the programs looking for? Do you have /dev/cdrom in your
system?

Check /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules to ensure it looks
right (in case you had a big change in your system config, like IDE -
SATA or something)

This command might give you some clue what's happening when those
errors occur if udev is involved:
udevadm test /class/block/sr0



Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-12 Thread Jake Moe
On 01/12/11 20:29, J. Roeleveld wrote:
 On Monday 10 January 2011 10:48:56 Jake Moe wrote:
 I can't seem to get audio CDs to work with my drive.  Data CDs work
 fine, I can mount the filesystem and read them.  Data and Video DVDs
 seem to work fine as well.  But when I try to listen to an audio CD, I
 get the attached errors in log.bz2.  I've tried using things from KsCD
 to cdplay; everything gives the same errors.  Googling seems to indicate
 that there might be a problem with udev somehow, but most of those that
 I find have the fix as update to the latest udev using apt/rpm/other
 binary distro package tool, which obviously won't work for Gentoo.
 Other solutions seem to be update to libATA, but I'm already using that.

 I've gone through and tried to check anything obvious in my kernel
 config, but I can't see anything that'd affect it like this.  Also, if I
 reboot into Windows (this laptop is a work computer as well), it plays
 and rips the same CDs just fine.

 Hardware is an HP EliteBook nc6930p laptop.  CD/DVD drive is /dev/sr0.
 Controller is:

 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI
 Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
 Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30dc
 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 46
 I/O ports at 8118 [size=8]
 I/O ports at 813c [size=4]
 I/O ports at 8110 [size=8]
 I/O ports at 8138 [size=4]
 I/O ports at 8000 [size=32]
 Memory at d8426000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
 Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/16 Maskable- 64bit-
 Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 3
 Capabilities: [a8] SATA HBA ?
 Capabilities: [b0] PCI Advanced Features
 Kernel driver in use: ahci

 Oddly, if I open Konqueror and type in audiocd:/, it lists the tracks,
 and has the FLAC, MP3, Ogg, etc folders.  But it won't play or copy the
 files; it gives the error in error.gif.

 Any other info you need, please let me know.  This is driving me nuts.

 Jake Moe
 Are you sure it is a proper audio-cd?
 The error message talks about a mp3-file.

 Do you have this issue with all Audio-CDs? (including older ones from before 
 record companies thought it was a good idea to add copy-protection schemes?)

 --
 Joost

If you're talking about proper Audio-CD as one that's audio-only, no
mixed data in there as well, then yes, I'm sure.  And I have over 500
CDs; I can't test them all.  :-P  But yeah, a selection of CDs have all
had the same result.  And only on Linux; the same CDs have read fine
from Windows.

The mp3 error screenshot was trying to copy the MP3 files from the CD
through Konqueror's audiocd:\ location to my hard drive.  I assume
Konqueror tries to auto-convert the CD tracks to MP3s on the fly.  The
log file I had attached should have been called messages.bz2; it's the
kernel log file.

Oh, and I only own a few CDs that have DRM on them.  And no, they
weren't the ones that I've tested.

Jake Moe



Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-12 Thread Jake Moe
On 01/13/11 01:37, Paul Hartman wrote:
 On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 3:48 AM, Jake Moe jakesaddr...@gmail.com wrote:
 I can't seem to get audio CDs to work with my drive.  Data CDs work
 fine, I can mount the filesystem and read them.  Data and Video DVDs
 seem to work fine as well.  But when I try to listen to an audio CD, I
 get the attached errors in log.bz2.  I've tried using things from KsCD
 to cdplay; everything gives the same errors.  Googling seems to indicate
 that there might be a problem with udev somehow, but most of those that
 I find have the fix as update to the latest udev using apt/rpm/other
 binary distro package tool, which obviously won't work for Gentoo.
 Other solutions seem to be update to libATA, but I'm already using that.

 I've gone through and tried to check anything obvious in my kernel
 config, but I can't see anything that'd affect it like this.  Also, if I
 reboot into Windows (this laptop is a work computer as well), it plays
 and rips the same CDs just fine.
 I wonder if udev is creating the correct device nodes for the cdrom?
 What are the programs looking for? Do you have /dev/cdrom in your
 system?

 Check /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules to ensure it looks
 right (in case you had a big change in your system config, like IDE -
 SATA or something)

 This command might give you some clue what's happening when those
 errors occur if udev is involved:
 udevadm test /class/block/sr0

Yeah, /dev/{cdrom,cdrw,dvd,dvdrw} all exist, and point to /dev/sr0:

jmoe@aus8617 ~ $ ls -l /dev/{cdrom,cdrw,dvd,dvdrw}
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jan 14  2011 /dev/cdrom - sr0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jan 14  2011 /dev/cdrw - sr0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jan 14  2011 /dev/dvd - sr0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jan 14  2011 /dev/dvdrw - sr0
jmoe@aus8617 ~ $

And if I try to mount a data CD or DVD, or watch a DVD, I have no
problems.  It's only audio CDs that give me issues.

Jake Moe



[gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-10 Thread Jake Moe
I can't seem to get audio CDs to work with my drive.  Data CDs work
fine, I can mount the filesystem and read them.  Data and Video DVDs
seem to work fine as well.  But when I try to listen to an audio CD, I
get the attached errors in log.bz2.  I've tried using things from KsCD
to cdplay; everything gives the same errors.  Googling seems to indicate
that there might be a problem with udev somehow, but most of those that
I find have the fix as update to the latest udev using apt/rpm/other
binary distro package tool, which obviously won't work for Gentoo. 
Other solutions seem to be update to libATA, but I'm already using that.

I've gone through and tried to check anything obvious in my kernel
config, but I can't see anything that'd affect it like this.  Also, if I
reboot into Windows (this laptop is a work computer as well), it plays
and rips the same CDs just fine.

Hardware is an HP EliteBook nc6930p laptop.  CD/DVD drive is /dev/sr0. 
Controller is:

00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI
Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30dc
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 46
I/O ports at 8118 [size=8]
I/O ports at 813c [size=4]
I/O ports at 8110 [size=8]
I/O ports at 8138 [size=4]
I/O ports at 8000 [size=32]
Memory at d8426000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/16 Maskable- 64bit-
Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [a8] SATA HBA ?
Capabilities: [b0] PCI Advanced Features
Kernel driver in use: ahci

Oddly, if I open Konqueror and type in audiocd:/, it lists the tracks,
and has the FLAC, MP3, Ogg, etc folders.  But it won't play or copy the
files; it gives the error in error.gif.

Any other info you need, please let me know.  This is driving me nuts.

Jake Moe


log.bz2
Description: BZip2 compressed data
attachment: error.gif

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-10 Thread Mick
On 10 January 2011 09:48, Jake Moe jakesaddr...@gmail.com wrote:
 I can't seem to get audio CDs to work with my drive.  Data CDs work
 fine, I can mount the filesystem and read them.  Data and Video DVDs
 seem to work fine as well.  But when I try to listen to an audio CD, I
 get the attached errors in log.bz2.  I've tried using things from KsCD
 to cdplay; everything gives the same errors.  Googling seems to indicate
 that there might be a problem with udev somehow, but most of those that
 I find have the fix as update to the latest udev using apt/rpm/other
 binary distro package tool, which obviously won't work for Gentoo.
 Other solutions seem to be update to libATA, but I'm already using that.

 I've gone through and tried to check anything obvious in my kernel
 config, but I can't see anything that'd affect it like this.  Also, if I
 reboot into Windows (this laptop is a work computer as well), it plays
 and rips the same CDs just fine.

 Hardware is an HP EliteBook nc6930p laptop.  CD/DVD drive is /dev/sr0.
 Controller is:

 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI
 Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30dc
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 46
        I/O ports at 8118 [size=8]
        I/O ports at 813c [size=4]
        I/O ports at 8110 [size=8]
        I/O ports at 8138 [size=4]
        I/O ports at 8000 [size=32]
        Memory at d8426000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
        Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/16 Maskable- 64bit-
        Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [a8] SATA HBA ?
        Capabilities: [b0] PCI Advanced Features
        Kernel driver in use: ahci

 Oddly, if I open Konqueror and type in audiocd:/, it lists the tracks,
 and has the FLAC, MP3, Ogg, etc folders.  But it won't play or copy the
 files; it gives the error in error.gif.

 Any other info you need, please let me know.  This is driving me nuts.

 Jake Moe


Do you have this installed?

[I] kde-base/kdemultimedia-kioslaves
 Available versions:
(4.4)
4.4.5!t amd64 ppc ~ppc64 x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux 
[aqua debug
encode flac +handbook kdeenablefinal kdeprefix vorbis]
(4.5)
~   4.5.3!t ~amd64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~x86 ~amd64-linux 
~x86-linux [aqua
debug encode flac +handbook kdeenablefinal kdeprefix vorbis]
~   4.5.4!t ~amd64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~x86 ~amd64-linux 
~x86-linux [aqua
debug encode flac +handbook kdeenablefinal kdeprefix vorbis]
 Installed versions:  4.4.5(4.4)!t(15:15:46 18/12/10)(encode flac
handbook vorbis -aqua -debug -kdeenablefinal -kdeprefix)
 Homepage:http://www.kde.org/
 Description: KDE kioslaves from the kdemultimedia package

-- 
Regards,
Mick



Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-10 Thread Jake Moe
On 01/10/11 20:21, Mick wrote:
 On 10 January 2011 09:48, Jake Moe jakesaddr...@gmail.com wrote:
 I can't seem to get audio CDs to work with my drive.  Data CDs work
 fine, I can mount the filesystem and read them.  Data and Video DVDs
 seem to work fine as well.  But when I try to listen to an audio CD, I
 get the attached errors in log.bz2.  I've tried using things from KsCD
 to cdplay; everything gives the same errors.  Googling seems to indicate
 that there might be a problem with udev somehow, but most of those that
 I find have the fix as update to the latest udev using apt/rpm/other
 binary distro package tool, which obviously won't work for Gentoo.
 Other solutions seem to be update to libATA, but I'm already using that.

 I've gone through and tried to check anything obvious in my kernel
 config, but I can't see anything that'd affect it like this.  Also, if I
 reboot into Windows (this laptop is a work computer as well), it plays
 and rips the same CDs just fine.

 Hardware is an HP EliteBook nc6930p laptop.  CD/DVD drive is /dev/sr0.
 Controller is:

 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI
 Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30dc
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 46
I/O ports at 8118 [size=8]
I/O ports at 813c [size=4]
I/O ports at 8110 [size=8]
I/O ports at 8138 [size=4]
I/O ports at 8000 [size=32]
Memory at d8426000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/16 Maskable- 64bit-
Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [a8] SATA HBA ?
Capabilities: [b0] PCI Advanced Features
Kernel driver in use: ahci

 Oddly, if I open Konqueror and type in audiocd:/, it lists the tracks,
 and has the FLAC, MP3, Ogg, etc folders.  But it won't play or copy the
 files; it gives the error in error.gif.

 Any other info you need, please let me know.  This is driving me nuts.

 Jake Moe

 Do you have this installed?

 [I] kde-base/kdemultimedia-kioslaves
  Available versions:
   (4.4)
   4.4.5!t amd64 ppc ~ppc64 x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux 
 [aqua debug
 encode flac +handbook kdeenablefinal kdeprefix vorbis]
   (4.5)
   ~   4.5.3!t ~amd64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~x86 ~amd64-linux 
 ~x86-linux [aqua
 debug encode flac +handbook kdeenablefinal kdeprefix vorbis]
   ~   4.5.4!t ~amd64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~x86 ~amd64-linux 
 ~x86-linux [aqua
 debug encode flac +handbook kdeenablefinal kdeprefix vorbis]
  Installed versions:  4.4.5(4.4)!t(15:15:46 18/12/10)(encode flac
 handbook vorbis -aqua -debug -kdeenablefinal -kdeprefix)
  Homepage:http://www.kde.org/
  Description: KDE kioslaves from the kdemultimedia package

Yep.

j...@aus8617 ~ $ emerge -pv kdemultimedia-kioslaves

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] kde-base/kdemultimedia-kioslaves-4.4.5  USE=encode flac
handbook vorbis (-aqua) -debug (-kdeenablefinal) (-kdeprefix) 0 kB

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB

j...@aus8617 ~ $ eix kdemultimedia-kioslaves
[I] kde-base/kdemultimedia-kioslaves
 Available versions: 
(4.4)   4.4.5!t
(4.5)   ~4.5.3!t ~4.5.4!t
{aqua debug encode flac +handbook kdeenablefinal kdeprefix vorbis}
 Installed versions:  4.4.5(4.4)!t(13:15:06 01/09/11)(encode flac
handbook vorbis -aqua -debug -kdeenablefinal -kdeprefix)
 Homepage:http://www.kde.org/
 Description: KDE kioslaves from the kdemultimedia package

j...@aus8617 ~ $

And anyway, that wouldn't account for the error with cdplay and dcd
(command-line cd-player utils) that throw the same errors.

Jake Moe