Cdparanoia

Last updated
cdparanoia
Stable release
III 10.2 / September 11, 2008
Repository
Operating system Linux
Type CD ripper
License GNU General Public License
Website xiph.org/paranoia

cdparanoia is a command-line compact disc ripper for Unix-like operating systems and BeOS developed by Xiph.org. It is designed to be a minimalistic CD ripper which would compensate for sub-par hardware to produce an accurate rip. [1]

Contents

libparanoia is a portable and platform-independent library which was made from important components from from the Linux/gcc-only program cdparanoia. Libparanoia is part of the cdrtools suite.

Design

libparanoia is the foundation of the project and does most of the work; the application cdparanoia is its frontend. (The current stable release of the library is Paranoia III.) cdparanoia is by design slow and thorough in ripping every bit from a CD, with the maximum number of default passes or reads being 20. [2] A live output shows the progress and status denoted by emoticons. [3] [4] It can save the audio from discs as WAV, AIFF, AIFF-C, or raw format files.

Several programs provide a graphical frontend to cdparanoia itself, among them RubyRipper [5] and Sound Juicer. [6]

Status indicators

One of the quirks of cdparanoia, in keeping with its minimalist design, is that the ripping status is indicated with an emoticon. 

:-)        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 re-read; hard to correct :-0        SCSI/ATAPI transport error :-(        Scratch detected ;-(        Gave up trying to perform a correction 8-X        Aborted read due to known, uncorrectable error :^D        Finished extracting

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Emms, Steve (2023-10-19). "cdparanoia - extracts audio from compact discs directly as data". LinuxLinks. Retrieved 2025-03-30.
  2. ↑ Oxer, Jonathan; Rankin, Kyle; Childers, Bill (2006-06-14). Ubuntu Hacks: Tips & Tools for Exploring, Using, and Tuning Linux. "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". p. 125. ISBN   978-0-596-55146-9.
  3. ↑ Siever, Ellen; Figgins, Stephen; Love, Robert; Robbins, Arnold (2009-09-19). Linux in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference. "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". p. 69. ISBN   978-1-4493-7920-9.
  4. ↑ Rankin, Kyle (2006). Linux Multimedia Hacks: Tips & Tools for Taming Images, Audio, and Video. "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". p. 67. ISBN   978-0-596-10076-6.
  5. ↑ Serrano, Matt (2009-01-06). "Audio Archiving Guide: Part 2 – CD Ripping – Techgage". TechGage. Retrieved 2025-03-30.
  6. ↑ Garrison, Justin (2010-06-23). "Rip Audio CDs in Linux with Sound Juicer". How-To Geek. Retrieved 2025-03-30.
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