Comments on: Five things that Desktop Linux really needs

By: Oliver Doepner

Oliver Doepner — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 04:58:11 +0000

@Ben: Yes, true. cdda2wav wouldn’t solve any of the mentioned problems. I just wanted to mention that grip us by no means tightly integrated with only cdparanoia.

Regarding “no significant [cdparanoia] updates since 2001″, from http://xiph.org/paranoia/news.html:

September 11, 2008

cdparanoia 10.2 final released

10.2 is a substantial upgrade release over 10.1.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 18:17:56 +0000

But why? cdparanoia is essentially a more quality-conscious version of cdda2wav—switching wouldn't solve any of the problems presented.

By: Oliver Doepner

Oliver Doepner — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:50:21 +0000

you can change the ripper of grip to cdda2wav if you don’t like cdparanoia.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 01:36:49 +0000

Actually, there’s a greater number for Windows—CDBurnerXP Pro comes to mind, and I’m sure there are standalone utilities as well.

It wouldn’t surprise me if K3B has it and I never found it. Frankly, I don’t think a better burning program than K3B exists for any platform.

But then, the ability to rip to ISO isn’t as useful without an easy way to mount as well.

By: Adam Glauser

Adam Glauser — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 01:03:38 +0000

K3B has the ability to rip to an ISO file. I use it all the time, and frankly, I’ve found this a difficult task on Windows, unless I am willing to buy or steal a specialized tool like paid Nero or somesuch. I think there is a ‘write image only’ option somewhere on the ‘start burning’ dialogue.

Maybe I didn’t look hard enough, but I’ve always found this to be much smoother on Linux than Windows.

By: A Modest Construct » Blog Archive » cdparanoia back under active development

Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:31:32 +0000

[...] I’d like nothing more than to see cdparanoia up to snuff. I’ve mentioned before that the dearth of decent ripping support is one of the major defecits of desktop Linux. [...]

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 00:55:48 +0000

I should clarify that when I say barely watchable, I mean there’s a little lag every few seconds. I do have the libdvdcss2 library and DMA on. I installed Automatix, but I had most of the stuff that’s useful to me already installed. I have almost everything working that I want (on the 64 bit version, even), so I’m pretty happy, but surround sound is really what’s keeping me from completely switching. It’s also not that I can’t get all of my speakers to output sound, just that it only mirrors the front speakers, even when playing something like those FLACs I mentioned.

By: Conor

Conor — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 15:12:36 +0000

Clean up the link in footnote 2. Nice post.

By: abou

abou — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 05:46:37 +0000

I should mention that gXine actually has a setup wizard that turns on things like DMA for you, which is also nice.

By: abou

abou — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 05:38:19 +0000

Automatix does a lot to handle many of your problems, Jeff. If you go to http://www.getautomatix.com and follow the instructions. Running it is a breeze and you can install everything without trouble – it just takes time for the download and install.