Can cdparanoia detect pregaps?
Not yet. This feature is slated to appear in Paranoia IV. Why don’t you implement CDDB? A GUI? Four million other features I want? Too many features spoil the broth. “Software is not perfect when there is nothing left to add, but rather when there is nothing extraneous left to take away.” 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. Several GUIs that incorporate cdparanoia already exist; I’m in the process of compiling a list (see the links page). Other software that implements new features by wrapping around cdpar anoia (like CDDB lookup) also exist. ‘Cdparanoia’ will not play to sound cards (you can always pipe the output to a WAV player), do MD5 signatures, read CD catalog or serial numbers (this *is* a feature I plan to add), search indexes, do rate reduction (use Sox, Ogg or a million others), or generally make use of the maximum
