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The progress meter: What is that weird bargraph during ripping?

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The progress meter: What is that weird bargraph during ripping?

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It’s a progress/status indicator. There’s a completion bargraph, a number indicating the last sector number completely verified of the read currently happening, an overlap indicator, a gratuitous smilie, and a heartbeat indicator to show if the process is still alive, hung, or spinning. The bargraph also marks points during the read with characters to indicate where various ‘paranoia’ features were tripped into action. A progress bargraph B sector counter C overlap indicator D smilie (gratuitous) E heartbeat The bargraph Different bargraph characters indicate different things occurred during that part of the read. The letters are heirarchical; for example if a trasport error occurs in the same sector as jitter, the bargraph will print ‘e’ instead of ‘-‘. Legend of characters – A hyphen indicates that two blocks overlapped properly, but they were skewed (frame jitter). This case is completely corrected by Paranoia and is not a cause for concern. + A plus indicates not only frame jitter,

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