Does cdparanoia lose quality from the CD recording? Does it just re-record the analog signal played from the CDROM drive?
No to both. Cdparanoia (and all other true CD digital audio extraction tools) reads the values off the CDROM in digital form. The data never comes anywhere near the soundcard, and does not pass through any conversion to analog first. Can cdparanoia detect pregaps? Can it remove the two second gaps between tracks 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
No to both. Cdparanoia (and all other true CD digital audio extraction tools) reads the values off the CDROM in digital form. The data never comes anywhere near the soundcard, and does not pass through any conversion to analog first. Can cdparanoia detect pregaps? Can it remove the two second gaps between tracks 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
