abcde cdparanoia config

anticapitalista · n00b Joined: 07 Oct 2005 Posts: 12 Location: Greece

Firstly apologies if this has been asked before.

I'm using abcde with lame to rip audio cds to mp3, via cdparanoia.
It works great, so getting to my question.
Is there any way to configure the output from (I think it's cdparanoia) in a terminal so the %%%% can be coloured?
A bit like configuring nanorc for highlighting.
It would be really cool to do so.
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anticapitalista · n00b Joined: 07 Oct 2005 Posts: 12 Location: Greece

anyone?
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micmac · l33t Joined: 28 Nov 2003 Posts: 996

If you're worried about extraction results and you got an ATAPI cdrom and you're using a kernel > 2.6.8 you should switch to the media-sound/cdparanoia-3.9.8-r3 first. Otherwise cdparanoia will use the cooked interface and you can't trust it at all.

If you're going to try media-sound/cdparanoia-3.9.8-r3 see that you got a kernel >2.6.15.

About the coloring I don't know. The thing is that cdparanoia doesn't use ncurses. It uses plain C functions to print output. There's no way for a program to use colors with these (afaik).

Best of luck

mic

swimmer · Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 12:34 pm Post subject:

What does this "-r3" precisely do and why is the output not trusted if you don't use that? Can you please explain more in detail since I'm in the proces of ripping 300 CDs again and I want an optimal result

Thanx in advance
swimmer

PS: My kernel is 2.6.15 atm ...

micmac · l33t Joined: 28 Nov 2003 Posts: 996

Hi,

I'll try the best I can.

Basically it's about SCSI commands. Since kernel 2.6.8 or 2.6.9 scsi-ide emulation is no longer supported. But cdparanoia used ide-scsi per default. So after ide-scsi vanished cdparanoia fell back to the so called "cooked interface". So it was no longer using SCSI commands (MMC) with ATAPI drives. Without them it's not able to catch errors and error correction completely depends on the drive. Most drives suck.

So Peter Jones from Red Hat patched cdparanoia for SG_IO support. SG_IO is so to speak the successor for ide-scsi regarding DAE. And those patches are included in media-sound/cdparanoia-3.9.8-r3 as you can also see in this bugzilla item.

Cheers

mic

micmac · l33t Joined: 28 Nov 2003 Posts: 996

Deleted, nevermind

swimmer · Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 1:43 pm Post subject:

micmac · l33t Joined: 28 Nov 2003 Posts: 996

Sorry for the confusion

I edited my previous posts and changed '-r3' to 'media-sound/cdparanoia-3.9.8-r3'

mic

anticapitalista · n00b Joined: 07 Oct 2005 Posts: 12 Location: Greece

micmac

Thanks a lot for the info.
I'm not having any problems with cdparanoia, and abcde output is satisfactory for my needs.
I just wondered about the coloured part. But you answered that too.
Thanks again, and I sure learnt a lot from your answers.

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micmac · l33t Joined: 28 Nov 2003 Posts: 996

Hi,

there's another way of checking the cdparanoia output, the data output (wav data) that is. I posted a patch to introduce Test & Copy into abcde. You can find out about it at Hydrogenaudio.

mic