[gentoo-user] [off-topic] Ripping "enhanced" CDs with abcde/cdparanoia

[gentoo-user] [off-topic] Ripping "enhanced" CDs with abcde/cdparanoia

[Lasse Pouru]

You know, the ones with video or software tracks shoehorned into the
end. Whenever I try to rip one with abcde I get the error "selected span
contains non audio track at track X", even when I've chosen a range not
containing track X (e.g. abcde 1-11, 12 being the non-audio track). Grip
rips the same CDs just fine, but I'd prefer to use a command-line
tool. I'm using cdparanoia with both abcde and grip, so is this a bug in
abcde or am I doing something wrong?

Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] Ripping "enhanced" CDs with abcde/cdparanoia

[Floyd Anderson]

On Sun, 04 Mar 2018 14:01:00 +0200
Lasse Pouru <lasse.pouru@edu.turkuamk.fi> wrote:
>You know, the ones with video or software tracks shoehorned into the
>end. Whenever I try to rip one with abcde I get the error "selected span
>contains non audio track at track X", even when I've chosen a range not
>containing track X (e.g. abcde 1-11, 12 being the non-audio track). Grip
>rips the same CDs just fine, but I'd prefer to use a command-line
>tool. I'm using cdparanoia with both abcde and grip, so is this a bug in
>abcde or am I doing something wrong?
>

That error message seems to come from dev-libs/libcdio-paranoia [1], so 
you have to ensure that abcde invokes cdparanoia (I assume it’s a 
symlink to /usr/bin/libcdio-paranoia) with the intended track range/span 
by looking at the forced debug or verbose output.

Or maybe simpler, invoke cdparanoia directly to see which one of the 
involved parts (wrapper/program) to blame – if your given range/span 
really contains only audio tracks.


References:
  - [1] <https://github.com/rocky/libcdio-paranoia/blob/b63fec7/src/cd-paranoia.c#L1199>


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[gentoo-user] Re: Ripping "enhanced" CDs with abcde/cdparanoia

[Ian Zimmerman]

On 2018-03-04 14:01, Lasse Pouru wrote:

> You know, the ones with video or software tracks shoehorned into the
> end. Whenever I try to rip one with abcde I get the error "selected
> span contains non audio track at track X", even when I've chosen a
> range not containing track X (e.g. abcde 1-11, 12 being the non-audio
> track). Grip rips the same CDs just fine, but I'd prefer to use a
> command-line tool. I'm using cdparanoia with both abcde and grip, so
> is this a bug in abcde or am I doing something wrong?

I tried abcde some time ago, but the idea of doing all that in a single
shell script (abcde is that) gave me doubts about its robustness.

What I do now for ripping is run cdparanoia myself from the command line
like this:

    cdparanoia -Bq -- 1-

this gives me a set of numbered files named like track01.cdda.wav,
track01.cdda.wav etc.  Then I have my own scripts to convert and massage
the wav files.  I don't know what cdparanoia would do with one of the
enhanced discs, but I think at worst you could limit it to the audio
tracks like this:

    cdparanoia -Bq -- 1-10

(assuming there are 10 audio tracks).

Long ago there was a text-mode integrated ripper called crip, but I
don't see it packaged for gentoo.

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Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] Ripping "enhanced" CDs with abcde/cdparanoia

[Lasse Pouru]

Floyd Anderson <f.a@31c0.net> writes:

> On Sun, 04 Mar 2018 14:01:00 +0200
> Lasse Pouru <lasse.pouru@edu.turkuamk.fi> wrote:
>>You know, the ones with video or software tracks shoehorned into the
>>end. Whenever I try to rip one with abcde I get the error "selected span
>>contains non audio track at track X", even when I've chosen a range not
>>containing track X (e.g. abcde 1-11, 12 being the non-audio track). Grip
>>rips the same CDs just fine, but I'd prefer to use a command-line
>>tool. I'm using cdparanoia with both abcde and grip, so is this a bug in
>>abcde or am I doing something wrong?
>>
>
> That error message seems to come from dev-libs/libcdio-paranoia [1],
> so you have to ensure that abcde invokes cdparanoia (I assume it’s a
> symlink to /usr/bin/libcdio-paranoia) with the intended track
> range/span by looking at the forced debug or verbose output.
>
> Or maybe simpler, invoke cdparanoia directly to see which one of the
> involved parts (wrapper/program) to blame – if your given range/span
> really contains only audio tracks.
>
>
> References:
>   - [1] <https://github.com/rocky/libcdio-paranoia/blob/b63fec7/src/cd-paranoia.c#L1199>

Same error when invoking cdparanoia directly. It seems grip includes its
own version of cdparanoia since it has two cdparanoia options, "grip
(cdparanoia)" and just "cdparanoia". The first on works, the latter
doesn't.

I'll try installing the unstable version of libcdio-paranoia in case
this is a bug that has recently been fixed.

Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] Ripping "enhanced" CDs with abcde/cdparanoia

[Lasse Pouru]

Lasse Pouru <lasse.pouru@edu.turkuamk.fi> writes:

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>
> Floyd Anderson <f.a@31c0.net> writes:
>
>> On Sun, 04 Mar 2018 14:01:00 +0200
>> Lasse Pouru <lasse.pouru@edu.turkuamk.fi> wrote:
>>>You know, the ones with video or software tracks shoehorned into the
>>>end. Whenever I try to rip one with abcde I get the error "selected span
>>>contains non audio track at track X", even when I've chosen a range not
>>>containing track X (e.g. abcde 1-11, 12 being the non-audio track). Grip
>>>rips the same CDs just fine, but I'd prefer to use a command-line
>>>tool. I'm using cdparanoia with both abcde and grip, so is this a bug in
>>>abcde or am I doing something wrong?
>>>
>>
>> That error message seems to come from dev-libs/libcdio-paranoia [1],
>> so you have to ensure that abcde invokes cdparanoia (I assume it’s a
>> symlink to /usr/bin/libcdio-paranoia) with the intended track
>> range/span by looking at the forced debug or verbose output.
>>
>> Or maybe simpler, invoke cdparanoia directly to see which one of the
>> involved parts (wrapper/program) to blame – if your given range/span
>> really contains only audio tracks.
>>
>>
>> References:
>>   - [1] <https://github.com/rocky/libcdio-paranoia/blob/b63fec7/src/cd-paranoia.c#L1199>
>
> Same error when invoking cdparanoia directly. It seems grip includes its
> own version of cdparanoia since it has two cdparanoia options, "grip
> (cdparanoia)" and just "cdparanoia". The first on works, the latter
> doesn't.
>
> I'll try installing the unstable version of libcdio-paranoia in case
> this is a bug that has recently been fixed.

Ok, upgrading libcdio-paranoia and libcdio to unstable versions solved
the problem. It's not even necessary to specify the range when running
abcde, the non-audio tracks are automatically left out.

Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] Ripping "enhanced" CDs with abcde/cdparanoia

[Floyd Anderson]

On Sun, 04 Mar 2018 18:45:57 +0200
Lasse Pouru <lasse.pouru@edu.turkuamk.fi> wrote:
>Lasse Pouru <lasse.pouru@edu.turkuamk.fi> writes:
>
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>>
>> Floyd Anderson <f.a@31c0.net> writes:
>>
>>> On Sun, 04 Mar 2018 14:01:00 +0200
>>> Lasse Pouru <lasse.pouru@edu.turkuamk.fi> wrote:
>>>>You know, the ones with video or software tracks shoehorned into the
>>>>end. Whenever I try to rip one with abcde I get the error "selected span
>>>>contains non audio track at track X", even when I've chosen a range not
>>>>containing track X (e.g. abcde 1-11, 12 being the non-audio track). Grip
>>>>rips the same CDs just fine, but I'd prefer to use a command-line
>>>>tool. I'm using cdparanoia with both abcde and grip, so is this a bug in
>>>>abcde or am I doing something wrong?
>>>>
>>>
>>> That error message seems to come from dev-libs/libcdio-paranoia [1],
>>> so you have to ensure that abcde invokes cdparanoia (I assume it’s a
>>> symlink to /usr/bin/libcdio-paranoia) with the intended track
>>> range/span by looking at the forced debug or verbose output.
>>>
>>> Or maybe simpler, invoke cdparanoia directly to see which one of the
>>> involved parts (wrapper/program) to blame – if your given range/span
>>> really contains only audio tracks.
>>>
>>>
>>> References:
>>>   - [1] <https://github.com/rocky/libcdio-paranoia/blob/b63fec7/src/cd-paranoia.c#L1199>
>>
>> Same error when invoking cdparanoia directly. It seems grip includes its
>> own version of cdparanoia since it has two cdparanoia options, "grip
>> (cdparanoia)" and just "cdparanoia". The first on works, the latter
>> doesn't.
>>
>> I'll try installing the unstable version of libcdio-paranoia in case
>> this is a bug that has recently been fixed.
>
>Ok, upgrading libcdio-paranoia and libcdio to unstable versions solved
>the problem. It's not even necessary to specify the range when running
>abcde, the non-audio tracks are automatically left out.
>

Good to know, thanks. I used abcde recently and it works (except 
retrieving metadata from musicbrainz.org due to an API change) but found 
it’s a horrible huge script and not so easy to contribute to the 
project. Just an example, making it XDG-compliant and fixing whitespace 
results in 15 files changed (346 insertions and 325 deletions).


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floyd

Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] Ripping "enhanced" CDs with abcde/cdparanoia

[Joerg Schilling]

Lasse Pouru <lasse.pouru@edu.turkuamk.fi> wrote:

> You know, the ones with video or software tracks shoehorned into the
> end. Whenever I try to rip one with abcde I get the error "selected span
> contains non audio track at track X", even when I've chosen a range not
> containing track X (e.g. abcde 1-11, 12 being the non-audio track). Grip
> rips the same CDs just fine, but I'd prefer to use a command-line
> tool. I'm using cdparanoia with both abcde and grip, so is this a bug in
> abcde or am I doing something wrong?

cdparanoia is unmaintained since a long time and never was able to read 
something other than audio sectors.

I recommend to read such disks using "readcd -clone".

Jörg

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Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] Ripping "enhanced" CDs with abcde/cdparanoia

[Joerg Schilling]

Lasse Pouru <lasse.pouru@edu.turkuamk.fi> wrote:

> I'll try installing the unstable version of libcdio-paranoia in case
> this is a bug that has recently been fixed.

Be careful, this is very old and buggy cdparanoia code.

If you like to have a fixed libcdparanoia, look at the code that comes with 
cdrtools since 2004.

Jörg

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