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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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... 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. 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! Tony -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+kprS+ZJrkBuz/nkRAm1gAKCVwpgt5SbvReIqWZnzLL5fOZ2pywCgh9WO BV+hVLJBjc+2wjHQtNQjqn8= =+V1H -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.