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A certain now dead site's successor also parses XLD logs, in case you are doing a rip on a Mac.

I hear that they instruct you to run EAC under Wine if you have a *nix box.

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XLD logs were also processed by the predecessor. It would be rather frustrating to have to use an inferior solution via Wine.

anticensor|7 years ago

What is your certain dead site? I cannot understand this subthread because of that uncertainty.

executesorder66|7 years ago

cdparanoia also has a detailed log file. So why can't they parse that for Linux users?

jtl999|7 years ago

The most modern CD ripper frontend for Linux I've found is whipper, which is a fork of morituri. It also has detailed log files, no ideas if "certain sites" accept them or not.

Due to dependency shenanigans I couldn't run it on Debian so I created an LXC container on my server running Ubuntu 18.04, passed the /dev/sr0 block device and it worked.

https://gist.github.com/jtl999/2991f1100b4f42895aa1842c5bef8...

I'd be curious how well cdparanoia handles his CD if at all. Furthermore I read a post on a forum where someone tested a bunch of drives with scratched CDs and the Samsung SH-2xxxx drives performed the best. No idea of the exact methodology he used.

https://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?34529-Best-DVD-d...

(Before you ask. I didn't buy this drive based on his post, bought it 7 years ago for my desktop on a whim) Still gotten 100% track quality out of whipper with some minor scratched discs.

_emacsomancer_|7 years ago

They can parse it, but seem to want some proprietary plugin to create signed checksums to prevent (though in reality only for the most unknowledgeable) log spoofing.

cuckcuckspruce|7 years ago

Does the default log file list the locations of sectors that failed to read? There's also a question of interpolation for obliterated sectors. Many would prefer there to be no data than interpolated data because that's a much more obvious failure mode.