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 kernel series (something The last cdparanoia 9.x was 9.8, the last of the 9.x versions in 2001 and was designed to support linux through early 2.4 kernels. Paranoia IV is an upcoming generation that intends to improve the library API as well as take advantage of new CDROM features that existed on only a few specialist dr
