Do symbols in the progress bar mean a bad rip?
‘ ‘, ‘-‘, and ‘+’ symbols in the progress bar are harmless; the resulting audio file should have no defects. ‘!’ indicates that cdparanoia is uncertain about having caught all errors; a few are likely harmless, lots indicate a problem. ‘V’ indicates an error that definately got through, probably an audible error (unless it happened in silence at the edges due to a known bug). How can I tell if my drive would be OK with regular cdda2wav? Easy. Run cdparanoia; if the progress meter never shows any characters but the little arrow going across the screen, the CDROM drive is probably one of the (currently) few drives that can read a pristine stream of data off an audio disc regardless of circumstances. This drive will work quite well with cdda2wav (or cdparanoia using the ‘-Z’ option) A drive that results in a bargraph of all hyphens would *likely* work OK with cdda2wav, but it’s less certain. Any other characters in the bargraph (colons, semicolons, pluses, Xs, etc..) indicate that a fixup
