CD Ripping Woes

[Paul Boniol]

So, I got my wife some CD's for Christmas. Everything is fine with three CD's, but one has problems. I think the problem is that the third song has a glitch in it, and the beginning of the fourth song is tacked onto the end of the third MP3.

The basic answer I found online was to use cdparanoia to rip the entire CD as one wav file, and then use another program (e.g. Audacity) to split it up into the separate mp3's. However it doesn't look like cdparanoia works with my kernel/drive. Lots of "scsi read error ... Transport error: Illegal SCSI request (rejected by target), System error: invalid argument" errors. After trying for several minutes, the output still had not grown to more than 44 bites.

I'm not finding a substitute command/program that would rip it all as one. I could try ripping as separate mp3's and then using Audacity to crop and prepend to the next file repeatedly. Not the most appealing, and not sure if that would introduce any artifacts or lose anything.

Thoughts?

---Paul.

[Paul Boniol]

Also note that I can make an ISO image of the CD without any error, and it plays fine in an audio player (other than a delay when the track number changes). So this appears to be a problem with the CD master, not with reading the CD.

---Paul.

[Paul Boniol]

More searching I found abcde and got one wav file of the whole CD. It called cdparanoia, so must have just been the parameters I was using. (I don't see documentation on some of the parameters it used.)