cdparanoia is a Compact Disc Digital Audio (CDDA) Digital Audio Extraction (DAE) tool.
This software reads digital audio directly from a CD (with no analog step between), then writes the data to a file or pipe in WAV, AIFC or raw 16 bit linear PCM format.
It was designed to be a minimalistic, high-quality CD ripper to compensate for and adjust to poor hardware to produce a flawless rip.
cdparanoia’s strength lies in its ability to handle a variety of hardware, including inexpensive drives prone to misalignment, frame jitter and loss of streaming during atomic reads. cdparanoia is also good at reading and repairing data from damaged CDs.
The Paranoia library, libparanoia, is the standard CD ripping library in KDE and GNOME.
Key Features
- Supports drives:
- Full ATAPI.
- IDE-SCSI.
- SCSI.
- SG_IO.
- USB drives.
- Implements high-level error-correcting interfaces.
- Read, correct, rock-solid audio data from inexpensive drives prone to misalignment, frame jitter and loss of streaming during atomic reads.
- Read and repair data from CDs that have been damaged.
- Output Smilies.
- Progress Bar.
Website: xiph.org/paranoia
Support: Documentation
Developer: Monty
License: GNU General Public License
cdparanoia is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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| abcde | A Better CD Encoder |
| redumper | Low-level byte-perfect CD disc dumper |
| cdparanoia | Well respected Digital Audio Extraction (DAE) tool |
| Rip Rip Hooray | Specialized audio CD-ripper optimized for track recovery |
| morituri | CD audio grabber that aims for accuracy over speed |
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