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ripping with cdparanoia: what options by command line?

Hi everybody, boys and girls!

I have to rip a lot of new CDs that I have bought in the last years: I was a fan of EAC and I ripped all my mp3 in my collection with it!, but now it'a about 3 years that I use linux and I don't want to install EAC by wine.. it's not elegant, in my opinion.. EAC use cdparanoia; linux has cdparanoia by default in practically every distro.. so, why do I need EAC? I tried it with wine, but I had problem ripping mp3 because the command prompt window (in window) showing mp3 info by real time doesn't show up in linux! I try to encode files in mpc and I had no problem! but that's another story

so, I discovered that the offset of my cdrom/dvd drive is +667..
I try to execute
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# cdparanoia -A

but I can't find the 667 value.. I read a lot all over the web, but I must admit that I'm a little bit confused..
so I would like to ask here for better help..

what option do I have to pass to cdparanoia executable to rip CDs in the EAC secure mode way?
Can you help me please?

Thank you very very much for your time!!
hope to hear you soon
bye..!!

ripping with cdparanoia: what options by command line?

Reply #1 –
Have you looked over the manual?
http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/manual.html

Quote from: elleti brain)(vision on
EAC use cdparanoia

EAC does not use cdparanoia.

While I'm not going to sit here and tell you that you need to use it, let alone why or why not, I don't think that it not displaying mp3 decoding status is a very good reason not to.

ripping with cdparanoia: what options by command line?

Reply #2 –
really EAC doesn't use cdparanoia?? I was sure of that!!

anyway, I don't want to use EAC in linux because I don't like to emulate windows! And the problem was not simply the info to be not shown.. it was not able to encode to mp3 at all!

goigng on..
I read the manual.. more than one time!, but there are technical questions and I'm not an english  mother-born man, so..
for example.. if I want to set my offset to +667 do I must use this option?
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       -O --sample-offset number
          Use  this     option to force the entire disc to shift sample posi-
          tion output by the given amount; This can be used to shift track
          boundaries  for  the  whole disc manually on sample granularity.
          Note that this will cause cdparanoia to attempt to read  partial
          sectors  before  or  past     the known user data area of the disc,
          probably causing read errors on most drives  and    possibly  even
          hard lockups on some buggy hardware.


And what's exactly "granularity"? In the previous option it speaks of "sample granularity" and when I run "cdparanoia -A" I discovered also thisd value:
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Cache tail granularity: 1 sector(s)

Those value are connected?

I'm really confused!!