Is cdparanoia/Paranoia related to cdda2wav?
Paranoia I/II and cdparanoia began life as a set of patches to Heiko Eissfeldt’s ‘cdda2wav’ application in late 1994. Cdparanoia gained its own life as a rewrite of cdda2wav in January of 1998 as “Paranoia III”. Paranoia has had no real relation to cdda2wav since then. What are the differences between Paranoia versions? Paranoia I and II were a set of patches to Heiko Eissfeldt’s cdda2wav 0.8. These patches did nothing more than add some error checks to the standard cdda2wav. They were inefficient and only worked with some drives. Paranoia III was the first version to be written seperately from cdda2wav in the form of a standalone library. The last of the previous generation of cdparanoia was cdparanoia III version 9.8 from early 2001, designed for Linux 2.0 through early 2.4. At this point, the project met all its original goals and was declared ‘finished’. Linux kept moving forward, finally unifying CDROM device access across all device types behind a new kernel interface in the 2.6
