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CDPARANOIA(1)		    General Commands Manual		 CDPARANOIA(1)

NAME
       cdparanoia  10.2	 (Paranoia  release III) - an audio CD reading utility
       which includes extra data verification features

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	target
       drive is	CDDA capable.

       In  addition to simple reading, cdparanoia adds extra-robust data veri-
       fication, synchronization, error	handling  and  scratch	reconstruction
       capability.

OPTIONS
       -A --analyze-drive
	      Run  and	log  a	complete analysis of drive caching, timing and
	      reading behavior;	verifies that cdparanoia is  correctly	model-
	      ling a sprcific drive's cache and	read behavior. Implies -vQL.

       -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).

       -l --log-summary	[file]
	      Save result summary to file, default filename cdparanoia.log.

       -L --log-debug [file]
	      Save detailed device autosense and debugging output to  a	 file,
	      default filename cdparanoia.log.

       -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 out-
	      put  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 de-
	      vice.

       -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  re-
	      stricted 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).

       -k --force-cooked-device	device
	      This option forces use of	the old	'cooked	ioctl'	kernel	inter-
	      face  with  the specified	cdrom device.  The cooked ioctl	inter-
	      face is obsolete in Linux	2.6 if it is present at	all.  -k  can-
	      not be used with -d or -g.

       -g --force-generic-device device
	      This option forces use of	the old	'generic scsi' (sg) kernel in-
	      terface  with  the  specified generic scsi device.  -g cannot be
	      used with	-k.  -g	may be used with -d to explicitly set both the
	      SCSI cdrom and generic (sg) devices seperately. This  option  is
	      only  useful  on obsolete	SCSI setups and	when using the generic
	      scsi (sg)	driver.

       -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 beginning
	      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  ac-
	      counts  for this behavior.  Note that this option	will cause cd-
	      paranoia 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  granularity.
	      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 us-
	      ing -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,  de-
	      fault 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
	      correct

	      :-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
       <space>
	      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 hav-
	      ing 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	speci-
       fication.  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 in-
	      cluding) 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 au-
       tosense:

	      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 de-
       pending	on  whether  -w,  -a, -r or -R is used (-w is the implicit de-
       fault).	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.  Cd-
       paranoia	would not have happened	without	it.

       Joerg Schilling has also	contributed SCSI expertise through his generic
       SCSI transport library.

AUTHOR
       Monty <monty@xiph.org>

       Cdparanoia's homepage may be found at: http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/

				  11 Sep 2008			 CDPARANOIA(1)

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