On Sunday, June 13, 2004, at 09:30 AM, Alex wrote: > > On Saturday, Jun 12, 2004, at 11:58 Canada/Eastern, James Asherman > wrote: > >> [...] Obviously mine IS bigger than yours and yours appears hard for >> no reason. [...] > > Very nice, dear. Now, run along, the grownups have something to talk > about. > > <0x0192> 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. Yes I do, your software is for schmucks. Unfortunately, cdda2wav and readcdda 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 'nsector' or 'overlap' settings. listening to "drifting" by jimi hendrix. Zero funny noises. Cdda2wav also cannot do anything about scratches (and they can cause cdda2wav to break). Cdparanoia is also smarter about probing CDDA support from SCSI and IDE-SCSI drives; many drives that do not work at all with cdda2wav, readcdda, tosha, etc, will work just fine with cdparanoia. Of course if your player works fine and you don't hear any noises then you're just paranoid.