Re: OT] Joerg Schilling flames Linux on his Blog

["Måns Rullgård" <mru@inprovide.com>]

Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> writes:

> Jim Crilly wrote:
>> On 06/01/05 07:50:57PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>>
>>>"Jim Crilly" <jim@why.dont.jablowme.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I don't use cdda2wav so I can't comment, but every other ripping tool that
>>>>I've used on Linux has had no problem using the /dev/whatever interface, so
>>>>once again it appears that your tool is the blacksheep for no good reason.
>>>
>>>You should use it as it is even used by people on Win32 because it is the
>>>best DAE program for even badly readable sources.
>> I'm not an audiophile, I can't tell the difference between a mp3
>> encoded at
>> 128k and one encoded at 160k so I really doubt I could tell the difference
>> between what cdda2wav and what most other DAE programs would produce. So
>> given that the quality of the rips will be effectively equal to my ears,
>> I'll use whatever's most convenient.
>
> The "quality" or fidelity isn't the issue here, but rather the rip
> being deterministic and producing the same (as as often as possible,
> correct) data. Joerg used the "paranoia" library to do the ripping
> validation, and I'm unconvinced that there is anything better in that
> regard.

So any program that uses that library would produce equally good
results, no?  The paranoia library was written by monty@xiph.org, whos
real name I can't find, but which I have reason to believe is not an
alias for Mr. Schilling.

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Måns Rullgård
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