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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 08 Apr 2003 10:47 am, Tony Atkin wrote: > On Monday 07 April 2003 10:47 pm, Jonathan Melhuish wrote: > > On Sunday 30 Mar 2003 9:39 pm, Alex Charrett wrote: > > > Have you tried cdrdao? If you have (I assume you have because on > > > thursday/friday I posted to the list suggesting it several times), > > > what was the problem with it that stopped it copying audio cds > > > directly? > > > > <hangs head in shame> I ought to read your replies more carefully, > > didn't I? > > > > I have since tried cdrdao and it does indeed do the trick. Kinda. The > > trouble is that ripping the CD is *so* slow that the fact that it is > > copying on the fly hardly makes any difference! > > > > Worse than that, some of the CDs I have copied "skip" (the error being > > introduced in the ripping, not burning, process). Again, the originals > > look fine and play fine in my CD player. :-( > > > > I'm not quite sure what to do about it... > > > > Jon > > I havn't used cdrdao myself but looking at the man page it tells me it > defaults to "full paranoia" when ripping. If it was not for your > "skipping" problem I would have suggested that disabling paranoia might > speed things up, however... Yeah, I guess it's a trade-off between quality and speed. I'm just surprised that my CD-ROM drive seems to have such problems reading the disc when my hi-fi CD player will play it without any noticable quality degregation. Will copying it with "no paranoia" just copy all the errors and leave it to the player to sort out? > My approach to a dodgy cd would be to first give the disk a good polish > then use cdparanoia in batch mode "cdparanoia -B" to rip all the tracks > from the cd to wav files and look at the output on the command line to > find out where the program is having a hard time. You can then listen to > parts of the wav files to check if the errors are audible before buring. > It's time consuming but at least it saves you wasting cd blanks. They generally aren't particularly 'dodgy' as I tend to keep my CDs quite clean and scratch-free! But yes, that would be an approach; although quite what you're supposed to do when you find it does skip I'm not quite sure! > Are you by any chance trying to copy one of the - so called - copy > protected cds that are around the shops nowadays. This could be the > cause of your errors - see http://ukcdr.org/issues/cd/ for more info. > There might be some information on the cd cover telling you about this > but you will need very good eyesight - it's not a "Parental Advisory" > sticker! No, they're mostly copies already (of non-copyright material, obviously) so the RIAA can go screw itself :-P Jon -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+lHUGeTVvFHAhe5cRAoBGAKCL4AaoidIFQqhyJX4bmFmrAmQFiQCdHPhT F0Sx6vlGf/mBjOQyMD07gd8= =RzH2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.