Lee wrote: > On Thu, Jun 4, 2026 at 10:52 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > > > (& 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.
That's the nature of humanity. Different people have different opinions: when project A almost but not quite fits your vision, and the maintainers of project A don't share your visoon, and the license of project A allows for forking pretty soon there is project A-prime. Sometimes, people being people, A-prime becomes the one that everybody uses. Sometimes A-prime has only scratched the itch of the person who forked A, and nobody hears about it again. And sometimes the folks who work on A and A-prime discover that they weren't really so far apart, and the projects re-merge. > > > > 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? Adding more software means increasing the number of bugs. Since the goal is to get the digital encoding off of a potentially lossy, timing-sensitive, slightly but not completely error-corrected optical disk with all sorts of different reading hardware, adding layers is bad. > 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. OK. You get to make your choices. Debian offers you lots of choices, and you don't even have to limit yourself to what Debian packages. When you ask a question like the one you just did, you get answers like the one you just did. > It'd be nice if I could find something comparable. That could also do > obscure sound files. I'm not sure why you would want your image viewer to also be a dessert topping and floor wax, but whatever. > I've still got some SunOS .au files from decades ago & some midi files that > are probably decades old also. sox or ffmpeg will convert your .au files. fluidsynth and some soundfonts will play your midi files. -dsr- -- https://randomstring.org/~dsr/eula.html is binding upon you. [Set the new password to "swordfish". Please repeat everything three times.]
