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Encyclopedia > Cdparanoia

cdparanoia is a compact disc ripper for Linux and BeOS. It was designed to be a minimalistic, high-quality CD ripper that would be able to compensate for and adjust to poor hardware to produce a flawless rip. The Compact Disc logo was inspired by that of the previous Compact Cassette. ... A CD ripper, CD grabber or CD extractor is a piece of software designed to extract raw digital audio (in format commonly called CDDA) from a compact disc to a file or other output. ... Tux is the Linux mascot. ... BeOS is an operating system for personal computers which began development by Be Incorporated in 1991. ... This article is about on art and design. ...

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Design

The Paranoia library is the foundation of the project and does most of the work, whereas the application cdparanoia is merely an application frontend to the Paranoia library. The current stable release of the Paranoia library is called Paranoia III.


The guiding principle of cdparanoia's design is "Too many features spoil the broth". cdparanoia is designed to rip correctly and know as much as possible about the CD-ROM hardware instead of implementing extraneous features such as a graphical user interface or a CDDB interface. The CD-ROM (an abbreviation for Compact Disc Read-Only Memory (ROM)) is a non-volatile optical data storage medium using the same physical format as audio compact discs, readable by a computer with a CD-ROM drive. ... Hardware is the general term that is used to describe physical artifacts of a technology. ... A graphical user interface (or GUI, sometimes pronounced gooey) is a method of interacting with a computer through a metaphor of direct manipulation of graphical images and widgets in addition to text. ... CDDB (which stands for Compact Disc Database) is a database for software applications to look up CD (compact disc) information over the Internet. ...


Development history

Xiph.org (the same team behind icecast, ogg and FLAC) develops cdparanoia and provides public subversion read-only access. cdparanoia began as a set of patches to cdda2wav (called Paranoia I and II). They provided some error correction, but were limited in effectiveness and only supported a few drives. The project evolved into a standalone library with the release of Paranoia III in January 1998. The pitfalls of Paranoia III are that it runs on very few operating systems (BeOS, and Linux although not x86-specific) and designed with an application programming interface which makes the project difficult to extend. The Xiph. ... Icecast is a FOSS streaming media project maintained by the Xiph. ... Ogg is a patent-free, fully open multimedia bitstream container format designed for efficient streaming and file compression (storage). ... The Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) Logo. ... Subversion is a system for revision control, sometimes known as svn, from the name of its command line interface. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... An application programming interface (API) is the interface that a computer system, library or application provides in order to allow requests for service to be made of it by other computer programs, and/or to allow data to be exchanged between them. ...


The current development version of the cdparanoia library is called Paranoia IV and is available through public subversion. This generation of the project is designed to be more flexible, more portable and more capable. Some of the features planned for IV are parallel port drive support, pregap detection and removal, and NetBSD and Solaris ports. However, development appears halted since there have been no updates to the source for a year, and no updates to the site since 2002. In computing, a parallel port is an interface from a computer system where data are transferred in or out in parallel, that is, on more than one wire. ... NetBSD was the second freely redistributable, open source version of the BSD Unix-like computer operating systems to produce a formal release (after 386BSD) and continues to be actively developed. ... This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... For the Cusco album, see 2002 (album). ...


Status indicators

One of the quirks behind cdparanoia is that its ripping status is indicated by a smiley. The following smilies (from the manual of cdparanoia) are used: The smiley has gone through many incarnations over the years, but it consistently retains the same features. ...

 :-) Normal operation, low/no jitter :-| Normal operation, considerable jitter :-/ Read drift :-P Unreported loss of streaming in atomic read operation 8-| Finding read problems at same point during reread; hard to correct :-0 SCSI/ATAPI transport error :-( Scratch detected ;-( Gave up trying to perform a correction :^D Finished extracting 

See also

The Crips are one of the Los Angeles, California gangs. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Rainbow Books. ...

External links

  • CDDA Paranoia Homepage
  • cdparanoia manual page

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Cdparanoia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (428 words)
It was designed to be a minimalistic, high-quality CD ripper that would be able to compensate for and adjust to poor hardware to produce a flawless rip.
cdparanoia is designed to rip correctly and know as much as possible about the CD-ROM hardware instead of implementing extraneous features such as a graphical user interface or a CDDB interface.
One of the quirks behind cdparanoia is that its ripping status is indicated by a smiley.
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