With EAC, there is the option to delete trailing and silent blocks. Does cdparanoia have this? I'm using it with grip right now and I can't find anything in the docs on it.

EDIT; found my answer.



It's been two years since its last development, so I shouldn't expect this feature anytime soon.

I don't know how grip invokes cdparanoia (I think it shows you when it's running it), but I know when you run it from the command line in batch mode (which produces one .wav file for each track), it rips the whole CD as a continuous stream, breaking it into separate .wav files as it goes. It doesn't insert any gap that wasn't on the CD. I just tested it ripping in batch mode and ripping single tracks and the files were identical, so it should be fine either way.

However, most CDs have silence between tracks. This gets ripped as well and cdparanoia doesn't have a built in function for stripping that out. Cdparanoia focuses solely on the job of ripping and counts on front ends for fancy features. Sometimes the silence is pure digital zeros, which is easy for a front end to strip off. Sometimes it's "analog" silence (very quiet noise, zeros, ones, negative ones, twos, etc.) That's harder to remove - what's the line between silence and fading out/in music? I don't have grip installed, so I don't know if it has that feature (I assume you looked for it, so I guess it doesn't or it's hidden).

Batch mode? Hmmm. I think it does this if I don't select any tracks.

I'm stuck using the GUI right now, the penguin scares me. I plan on dumping the GUIs later, since they just add to the computer resources taken.

I understand what you are asking for, but why would you want to do that? Isn't duplication of the CD's original structure what we are after?

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Good point, I do want that with CDs that don't fade into the next track.

I only use this on some CDs, right now on Radiohead's - I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings album. On some CDs not having the gap just makes it plain wierd.

Found out how to do this. XP's officially joining AOL in the microwave tomorrow.