On Thu, Jun 4, 2026 at 10:52 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > 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. >
I moved from programming to networking decades ago. So my ability to read code leaves much to be desired :( I'm sure that if I knew what I was doing I'd know, or be able to figure out, the difference between libcdio and whatever cdparanoia uses.. but maybe I'll get lucky and find a comparison by Someone Who Knows what all the difference is. OK.. I realize this is what I signed up for when I switched to Debian (or open source in general), but it would be nice if it was a bit easier. I'm still adjusting to the expectation of being able to read code to answer most any questions you have. > > (& why is re-implementing something such a thing in linux??) > > Open source and no central control. > Which begs the question of why the person/people supporting the original program don't cherry pick the neat ideas from the new version and incorporate them into the original version. For example, I don't understand why Apache is supporting openoffice. OK.. Oracle was trying to dump it & Apache taking it was probably the best option. But why is Apache still supporting openoffice? Most of the Openoffice people told Oracle to buzz off & they forked libre office. Why do we still have open office years later??? > > > 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. > Because? > 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 .. > > > <.. snip list ..> > ... and on through the alphabet. > > Try "apt search image view" > I did that and more. I was so sick of the process that when I found xnview I quit looking - even though xnview isn't open source. For whatever it's worth, Irfanview supports all this: https://www.irfanview.com/main_formats.htm It'd be nice if I could find something comparable. That could also do obscure sound files. I've still got some SunOS .au files from decades ago & some midi files that are probably decades old also. and yet another FWIW: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xv_(software) While popular in the early 1990s ("XV is widely considered to be the preeminent image viewer for the X Window System"[2] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xv_(software)#cite_note-2>), ... I haven't found anything like that for Linux (& preferably Debian) Regards, Lee
