Cdparanoia

libparanoia is the foundation of the project and does most of the work; the application cdparanoia is its frontend. (The current stable release of the library is Paranoia III.) cdparanoia is by design slow and thorough in ripping every bit from a CD, with the maximum number of default passes or reads being 20. A live output shows the progress and status denoted by emoticons. It can save the audio from discs as WAV, AIFF, AIFF-C, or raw format files. Several programs provide a graphical frontend to cdparanoia itself, among them RubyRipper and Sound Juicer. ==Status indicators==

One of the quirks of cdparanoia, in keeping with its minimalist design, is that the ripping status is indicated with an emoticon. :-) 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 re-read; 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 ==See also==