problems with cdda2wav and other audio CDROM ripping software

problems with cdda2wav and other audio CDROM ripping software

[Tony Nugent]

For the life of me I just can't get cdda2wav to work on my RH5.1/5.2
box!

% cdda2wav -q -e -t2 -d0 -N -D /dev/cdrom

(and lots of variants) just produces ugly noise.  Same for cdparanoia
- the wav files it creates sound like a ham radio between signals :)

And I can't get 8hz-mp3 to compile (there's a bunch of missing
ieee*.h header files).  So "ripperX" is useless.

I'd really like to do some audio cdrom ripping (to do audio cdrom
copies and to make some mp3 disks), but I'm at a loss to know what to
use.

Can anyone point me in the direction of something (anything!!) that
*works* ??

(rpm format would be ideal, but I'll use anything - just as long as it
works :)

Many thanks.

Cheers
Tony

Re: problems with cdda2wav and other audio CDROM ripping software

[Sven Dummer]

Tony Nugent wrote:
> 
> For the life of me I just can't get cdda2wav to work on my RH5.1/5.2
> box!
> 
> % cdda2wav -q -e -t2 -d0 -N -D /dev/cdrom
> 
> (and lots of variants) just produces ugly noise.  Same for cdparanoia
> - the wav files it creates sound like a ham radio between signals :)

I guess you need to to swap the word-order in your wav files. You can
do so by converting the files using the "sox" utility, using the -x
option (see http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/cbagwell/projects.html or
the sox man page if you already have it). I think, cdda2wav also has
an option for byte-swapping, see the man page (I haven't got it on
my machine here at home...)

E.g. using cdda2wav with HP CD-writers may produce wav-files that just
sound noisy. If you do a "sox -x file.wav file_new.wav" the result
should be okay (but if you want to burn it on a CD-R using the HP
recorder again, you'll have only noise on your CD, because the HP
needs the other byte-order!).


Regards,
Sven

-- 
Sven Dummer - sdummer@gwdg.de
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Re: problems with cdda2wav and other audio CDROM ripping software

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Tony Nugent wrote:

> (and lots of variants) just produces ugly noise.  Same for cdparanoia
> - the wav files it creates sound like a ham radio between signals :)
> 
> And I can't get 8hz-mp3 to compile (there's a bunch of missing
> ieee*.h header files).  So "ripperX" is useless.
>
> I'd really like to do some audio cdrom ripping (to do audio cdrom
> copies and to make some mp3 disks), but I'm at a loss to know what to
> use.
> 
> Can anyone point me in the direction of something (anything!!) that
> *works* ??

I've given up on cdda2wav and am using cdparanoia 
(http://www.mit.edu/afs/sipb/user/xiphmont/cdparanoia/index.html) and also
I've started using the "lamer" patches to the dist10 mp3 encoder in
preference to 8hz-mp3, but that pointer I don't have handy.

Both work on my RH 5.1 laptop, but cdparanoia needed work (which is now
integrated) to override the default read size since the automatic
optimization didn't work with the cdrom drive in my laptop.... which has 2
different jitter peaks, apparently. 

-D