I started out using Rubyripper 0.3 on my Ubuntu machine. It was OK, but it would not recognize my CD-RW drive, preferring to use my DVD-ROM drive, which is a worse ripper and cannot slow down when it encounters errors - so a scratched CD would result in 10-12 hours of the drive at full speed!
I poked around and found version 0.4.1. Much improved! It can use my CD-RW just fine. Also the log file does not appear in a separate window and doesn't disappear when you open another program. The links you can find with Google are a little screwy - the HydrogenAudio link to the Rubyforge site sends you to the developers section where you need an account to continue, and trying to search the Rubyforge site for Rubyripper turns up no matches. Unfortunately Rubyripper isn't the secure ripper EAC is. I tried experiments today - the same CD track which Rubyripper thinks is OK, matching all chunks, produces a different MD5 checksum each time. The defects are not audible, but it's not 100% bit-perfect either. Doing some research, it seems that cdparanoia isn't quite up to bit-perfect performance yet, so any ripper based on it won't be bit-perfect either. -- Mark Lanctot 'Sean Adams' Response-O-Matic checklist, patent pending!' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=200910&postcount=2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35895 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
