Why use cdparanoia?
All CDROM drives are not created equal. You’ll need cdparanoia if yours is a little less equal than others– or maybe you just keep your CD collection in a box of full of gravel. Jewel cases are for wimps; you know what I’m talking about. Unfortunately, most rippers cannot work properly with a large number of CDROM drives in the desktop world today. The most common problem is sporadic or regular clicks and pops in the read sample, regardless of options or settings. The great lesson from coding software for CDROMS the past 15 years is that drives that don’t have bugs reading digital audio are exceptionally rare. Most drives advertise that they support ‘error correcting streaming’ or ‘perfect reconstruction’. If that’s true, why is your music collection full of glitches? Cdparanoia is also smarter about finding and probing CDDA support from drives. Cdparanoia knows most of the old proprietary CDDA reading command sets from the bad old days and can autodetect them all. Many drives, especi
All CDROM drives are not created equal. You’ll need cdparanoia if yours is a little less equal than others– or maybe you just keep your CD collection in a box of full of gravel. Jewel cases are for wimps; you know what I’m talking about. Unfortunately, most rippers cannot work properly with a large number of CDROM drives in the desktop world today. The most common problem is sporadic or regular clicks and pops in the read sample, regardless of options or settings. The great lesson from coding software for CDROMS the past 15 years is that drives that don’t have bugs reading digital audio are exceptionally rare. Most drives advertise that they support ‘error correcting streaming’ or ‘perfect reconstruction’. If that’s true, why is your music collection full of glitches? Cdparanoia is also smarter about finding and probing CDDA support from drives. Cdparanoia knows most of the old proprietary CDDA reading command sets from the bad old days and can autodetect them all. Many drives, especi
