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Xiph.Org has a command line program called cdparanoia, which is built with the same philosophy as Exact Audio Copy (EAC). The FAQ page explains a lot about why
by nayuki 8y ago
Xiph.Org has a command line program called cdparanoia, which is built with the same philosophy as Exact Audio Copy (EAC). The FAQ page explains a lot about why the program is necessary.
https://www.xiph.org/paranoia/ https://www.xiph.org/paranoia/
https://www.xiph.org/paranoia/faq.html https://www.xiph.org/paranoia/faq.html
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agocdparanoia, I find, works better than EAC. The latter seems to be 'the standard' though.
- mackal 8y agoA certain now dead site parsed EAC logs for verification purposes. (At least why it's the standard)
- whitepoplar 8y agoI miss what so badly :'(
- datanut 8y agoAny more insight on the dead site or how it became a standard? Is its DB still available?
- hydrox24 8y agoYes, the database has been published. https://twitter.com/whatcd/status/923942203080273921 https://twitter.com/whatcd/status/923942203080273921 EAC was the standard because it was the only free tool that could bypass firmware error correction (with 'secure' mode) and log the whole process securely, in a way that could not be tampered with easily.
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoA certain now dead site's successor also parses EAC logs (and relies on its checksumming).
- cuckcuckspruce 8y agoA certain now dead site's successor also parses XLD logs, in case you are doing a rip on a Mac. I hear that they instruct you to run EAC under Wine if you have a *nix box.
- _emacsomancer_ 8y agoXLD logs were also processed by the predecessor. It would be rather frustrating to have to use an inferior solution via Wine.
- anticensor 8y agoWhat is your certain dead site? I cannot understand this subthread because of that uncertainty.
- machiavelli1024 8y agoOink, what.cd, redacted
- roboyoshi 8y agofirst rule about private trackers is not to talk about private trackers.
- machiavelli1024 8y agoI believe in freedom of information ;)
- executesorder66 8y ago
- michaericalribo 8y agoThough to be fair that site was simply carrying on the tradition of long-dead Oink’s Palace!
- AdmiralAsshat 8y agoThanks for the name drop. I went Linux-only on my primary laptop, but I still have a Windows 7 laptop with EAC installed that I dig out every time I buy a new CD and need to do a rip. Maybe I'll finally be able to put it to rest, soon.
- KozmoNau7 8y agoI've found that EAC works really well in Wine, and it's still my favorite ripper, even on Linux. Similarly, Foobar2000 in Wine is the best Replaygain scanner/tagger.
- worble 8y ago>Foobar2000 in Wine is the best Replaygain scanner/tagger. I see you are a fellow of fine taste as well. It pains me that there was never anything quite as good as foobar on linux.
- endgame 8y agoAnd to script cdparanoia, flac and cddb, I quite like crip: http://bach.dynet.com/crip/index.html http://bach.dynet.com/crip/index.html
- gpvos 8y agoI used it a lot. Sadly, it destroyed my Macbook Pro's drive when I tried to rip a particular CD-R (it had ripped others fine before).
- Filligree 8y agoWell, that isn't the program's fault. There should be no series of commands it can send that would destroy the CD drive--I bet it wasn't even running as root.
- HankB99 8y agocdparanoia was the cornerstone of my favorite CD ripper back in the day. The package was a Perl script that would 1) watch the CD drive for a CD. 2) When one appeared, launch cdparanoia to rip the tracks 3) Grab some ID key from the CD and look up the 'album.' 4) Encode the tracks to MP3s, renaming to the information fetched about the album. 5) Copy the album directory to the desired target destination. 6) Eject the CD. 7) Repeat from 1. (I may not have the exact order - I just needed to watch for it spitting out one CD and swap in the next. I used it to rip a CD collection consisting of dozens and dozens of disks. It was a true zero click interface. It took no command line arguments - customization was via code editing - so it was not particularly user friendly in that regard. Nowadays look for the downloads of purchased CDs on Amazon or use some GUI app - at least it retains settings from one execution to the next.
- krylon 8y agoDo you by any chance mean abcde? I just used that a couple of weeks ago when I noticed that I still had a few CDs that I had not ripped. A custom CD ripper script was the first program I ever wrote that actually served a useful purpose. Back then, somebody told me not to bother and just use abcde. 16 years later, I have finally come around to follow that advice. :-)