| cdparanoia | |
|---|---|
| Stable release | III 10.2 / September 11, 2008 |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Type | CD ripper |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | xiph.org/paranoia |
| Repository | |
cdparanoia is acommand-linecompact discripper forUnix-like operating systems andBeOS developed byXiph.org. It is designed to be aminimalistic CD ripper which would compensate for sub-par hardware to produce an accurate rip.[1]
libparanoia is a portable and platform-independent library which was made from important components from the Linux/gcc-only program cdparanoia. Libparanoia is part of thecdrtools suite.
libparanoia is the foundation of the project and does most of the work; the application cdparanoia is itsfrontend. (The current stable release of the library is Paranoia III.) cdparanoia is by design slow and thorough in ripping every bit from a CD, with the maximum number ofdefault passes or reads being 20.[2] A live output shows the progress and status denoted by emoticons.[3][4] It can save the audio from discs asWAV,AIFF,AIFF-C, or raw format files.
Several programs provide a graphical frontend to cdparanoia itself, among them RubyRipper[5] andSound Juicer.[6]
One of the quirks of cdparanoia, in keeping with its minimalist design, is that the ripping status is indicated with an emoticon.
:-) Normal operation, low/no jitter:-| Normal operation, considerable jitter:-/ Read drift:-P Unreported loss of streaming in atomic read operation8-| Finding read problems at same point during re-read; hard to correct:-0 SCSI/ATAPI transport error:-( Scratch detected;-( Gave up trying to perform a correction8-X Aborted read due to known, uncorrectable error:^D Finished extracting
