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NAME
cdparanoia (Paranoia release III) - an audio CD reading utility which
includes extra data verification features
DATE
version III release alpha 9.8 (02 Mar 2001)
SYNOPSIS
cdparanoia [options] span [outfile]
DESCRIPTION
cdparanoia retrieves audio tracks from CDDA capable CDROM drives. The
data can be saved to a file or directed to standard output in WAV,
AIFF, AIFF-C or raw format. Most ATAPI, SCSI and several proprietary
CDROM drive makes are supported; cdparanoia can determine if the tar-
get drive is CDDA capable.
In addition to simple reading, cdparanoia adds extra-robust data veri-
fication, synchronization, error handling and scratch reconstruction
capability.
OPTIONS
-v --verbose
Be absurdly verbose about the autosensing and reading process.
Good for setup and debugging.
-q --quiet
Do not print any progress or error information during the read-
ing process.
-e --stderr-progress
Force output of progress information to stderr (for wrapper
scripts).
-V --version
Print the program version and quit.
-Q --query
Perform CDROM drive autosense, query and print the CDROM table
of contents, then quit.
-s --search-for-drive
Forces a complete search for a cdrom drive, even if the
/dev/cdrom link exists.
-h --help
Print a brief synopsis of cdparanoia usage and options.
-p --output-raw
Output headerless data as raw 16 bit PCM data with interleaved
samples in host byte order. To force little or big endian byte
order, use -r or -R as described below.
-r --output-raw-little-endian
Output headerless data as raw 16 bit PCM data with interleaved
samples in LSB first byte order.
-R --output-raw-big-endian
Output headerless data as raw 16 bit PCM data with interleaved
samples in MSB first byte order.
-w --output-wav
Output data in Micro$oft RIFF WAV format (note that WAV data is
always LSB first byte order).
-f --output-aiff
Output data in Apple AIFF format (note that AIFC data is always
in MSB first byte order).
-a --output-aifc
Output data in uncompressed Apple AIFF-C format (note that
AIFF-C data is always in MSB first byte order).
-B --batch
Cdda2wav-style batch output flag; cdparanoia will split the
output into multiple files at track boundaries. Output file
names are prepended with 'track#.'
-c --force-cdrom-little-endian
Some CDROM drives misreport their endianness (or do not report
it at all); it's possible that cdparanoia will guess wrong.
Use -c to force cdparanoia to treat the drive as a little
endian device.
-C --force-cdrom-big-endian
As above but force cdparanoia to treat the drive as a big
endian device.
-n --force-default-sectors n
Force the interface backend to do atomic reads of n sectors per
read. This number can be misleading; the kernel will often
split read requests into multiple atomic reads (the automated
Paranoia code is aware of this) or allow reads only wihin a
restricted size range. This option should generally not be
used.
-d --force-cdrom-device device
Force the interface backend to read from device rather than the
first readable CDROM drive it finds. This can be used to spec-
ify devices of any valid interface type (ATAPI, SCSI or propri-
etary).
-g --force-generic-device device
This option is used along with -d when one wants explicit con-
trol in setting both the SCSI cdrom and generic devices seper-
ately. This option is only useful on non-standard SCSI setups.
-S --force-read-speed number
Use this option explicitly to set the read rate of the CD drive
(where supported). This can reduce underruns on machines with
slow disks, or which are low on memory.
-t --toc-offset number
Use this option to force the entire disc LBA addressing to
shift by the given amount; the value is added to the beginning
offsets in the TOC. This can be used to shift track boundaries
for the whole disc manually on sector granularity. The next
option does something similar...
-T --toc-bias
Some drives (usually random Toshibas) report the actual track
beginning offset values in the TOC, but then treat the begin-
ning of track 1 index 1 as sector 0 for all read operations.
This results in every track seeming to start too late (losing a
bit of the beginning and catching a bit of the next track). -T
accounts for this behavior. Note that this option will cause
cdparanoia to attempt to read sectors before or past the known
user data area of the disc, resulting in read errors at disc
edges on most drives and possibly even hard lockups on some
buggy hardware.
-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 granu-
larity. 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.
-Z --disable-paranoia
Disable all data verification and correction features. When
using -Z, cdparanoia reads data exactly as would cdda2wav with
an overlap setting of zero. This option implies that -Y is
active.
-z --never-skip[=max_retries]
Do not accept any skips; retry forever if needed. An optional
maximum number of retries can be specified; for comparison,
default without -z is currently 20.
-Y --disable-extra-paranoia
Disables intra-read data verification; only overlap checking at
read boundaries is performed. It can wedge if errors occur in
the attempted overlap area. Not recommended.
-X --abort-on-skip
If the read skips due to imperfect data, a scratch, whatever,
abort reading this track. If output is to a file, delete the
partially completed file.
OUTPUT SMILIES
:-) Normal operation, low/no jitter
:-| Normal operation, considerable jitter
:-/ Read drift
:-P Unreported loss of streaming in atomic read operation
8-| Finding read problems at same point during reread; hard to cor-
rect
:-0 SCSI/ATAPI transport error
:-( Scratch detected
;-( Gave up trying to perform a correction
8-X Aborted read due to known, uncorrectable error
:^D Finished extracting
PROGRESS BAR SYMBOLS
No corrections needed
- Jitter correction required
+ Unreported loss of streaming/other error in read
! Errors found after stage 1 correction; the drive is making the
same error through multiple re-reads, and cdparanoia is having
trouble detecting them.
e SCSI/ATAPI transport error (corrected)
V Uncorrected error/skip
SPAN ARGUMENT
The span argument specifies which track, tracks or subsections of
tracks to read. This argument is required. NOTE: Unless the span is
a simple number, it's generally a good idea to quote the span argument
to protect it from the shell.
The span argument may be a simple track number or an offset/span spec-
ification. The syntax of an offset/span takes the rough form:
1[ww:xx:yy.zz]-2[aa:bb:cc.dd]
Here, 1 and 2 are track numbers; the numbers in brackets provide a
finer grained offset within a particular track. [aa:bb:cc.dd] is in
hours/minutes/seconds/sectors format. Zero fields need not be speci-
fied: [::20], [:20], [20], [20.], etc, would be interpreted as twenty
seconds, [10:] would be ten minutes, [.30] would be thirty sectors (75
sectors per second).
When only a single offset is supplied, it is interpreted as a starting
offset and ripping will continue to the end of the track. If a single
offset is preceeded or followed by a hyphen, the implicit missing off-
set is taken to be the start or end of the disc, respectively. Thus:
1:[20.35]
Specifies ripping from track 1, second 20, sector 35 to the end
of track 1.
1:[20.35]-
Specifies ripping from 1[20.35] to the end of the disc
-2 Specifies ripping from the beginning of the disc up to (and
including) track 2
-2:[30.35]
Specifies ripping from the beginning of the disc up to
2:[30.35]
2-4 Specifies ripping from the beginning of track 2 to the end of
track 4.
Again, don't forget to protect square brackets and preceeding hyphens
from the shell.
EXAMPLES
A few examples, protected from the shell:
Query only with exhaustive search for a drive and full reporting of
autosense:
cdparanoia -vsQ
Extract an entire disc, putting each track in a seperate file:
cdparanoia -B
Extract from track 1, time 0:30.12 to 1:10.00:
cdparanoia "1[:30.12]-1[1:10]"
Extract from the beginning of the disc up to track 3:
cdparanoia -- "-3"
The "--" above is to distinguish "-3" from an option flag.
OUTPUT
The output file argument is optional; if it is not specified, cdpara-
noia will output samples to one of cdda.wav, cdda.aifc, or cdda.raw
depending on whether -w, -a, -r or -R is used (-w is the implicit
default). The output file argument of - specifies standard output;
all data formats may be piped.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Cdparanoia sprang from and once drew heavily from the interface of
Heiko Eissfeldt's (heiko@colossus.escape.de) 'cdda2wav' package.
Cdparanoia would not have happened without it.
Joerg Schilling has also contributed SCSI expertise through his
generic SCSI transport library.
AUTHOR
Monty
Cdparanoia's homepage may be found at:
http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/
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