cdrecord / readcd problem

[duncan brown]

John Walsh said:
>
> 1) pure audio CD, paranoia on = OK
>
> 2) pure audio CD, paranoia off = bad
>
> 3,4) mixed audio/data CD, paranoia on/off = bad - it tries to read the
> data  track first and fails,
> and I think it used to work under RH9.
>
> The only other thing is that the audio reading is very slow, reading at
> 1x.  I don't remember
> it being super fast before, I thought it was faster, but it could just
> be  the same speed.
>
> Under RH9, I didn't use paranoia mode, but at least now I can read audio
>  CD's again.

so, it looks like you're just trying to rip an audio cd?  why not use
grip?    or sound juicer?  i have my own shell script that does quite a
bit of fun stuff at http://www.linuxadvocate.net/cd2ogg which does as it's
name says.  (version i'm working on now uses zenity under gnome, if you
want it)

-d

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