snarlydwarf;513503 Wrote: > Is that so? How? (EAC users claim this often...)
I'm not an audio engineer, so I can only rely on what I gleaned from my reading of folk who seemed well informed. I understood that EAC provided a more accurate copy of a CD than cdparanoia owing to the AccurateRip feature which checksumed the audio against an on-line database, and that EAC was able to handle drives with caches, which cdparanoia couldn't. I also understood that EAC had a particularly effective statistical algorithm for extracting audio from extremely scratched CDs. The cdparanoia FAQ says "Q: Can cdparanoia detect pregaps? Can it remove the two second gaps between tracks A: Not yet. This feature is slated to appear in Paranoia IV. Q: Why don't you implement CDDB? A GUI? Four million other features I want? A: ...The goal of cdparanoia is perfect, rock-solid audio from every capable cdrom on every platform. As this goal has not yet been met, I'm uninterested in adding unrelated capability to the core engine." Of course, I read up about this stuff a good while ago, and things may have changed since then. I'm happy to be corrected by someone with more understanding of the engineering than me. As I said, I haven't used EAC under WINE for ages, for the reasons that occasioned this thread. I'd be very happy to give cdparanoia a go, but I'd prefer to use a decent GUI. IIRC, you use the CLI; can you - or anyone else - recommend a good gui? -- Diana ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Diana's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7463 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57534 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
