CD ripping with CDParanoia gives silent WAV files on Sarge?
In the past week (I can't pinpoint a date), ripperX stopped working
correctly on my frequently-updated Sarge system. It gave no errors, but the
MP3 files it created were silent, contained no actual encoded audio.
I quickly traced the problem to CDParanoia, which was producing silent WAV
files when ripping. This means that, for instance, Jack also stopped
working.
A web search turned up this article from the kernel list:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0408.3/2380.html
Which implies the problem is in 2.6.x's implementation of IOCTL. It
suggests turning off error correction in CDParanoia and reading one frame
per attempt (-n1 -Z), which kind-of worked -- I got WAVs containing sound,
but filled with horrible clicks and buzzes. (Apparently my CD drive gives
many errors.) It also suggests using HDPARM to turn DMA on for the drive,
but this had no effect at all.
I'm now able to rip CD's using mp3c (which uses cdda2wav rather than
CDParanoia), but I'm wondering if it's worth putting in a bug report
(against the kernel?) or just assuming our kernel team (or the upstream
kernel team) will fix this in the next version.
Versions:
Debian: Sarge (x86)
CDParanoia: 3a9.8-11
Kernel version: 2.6.7-1-k7
Any advice?
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Carl Fink carl@fink.to
Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading
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