I've just moved over to Linux and am wondering which ripper to use. I'm using Mandrake 9.0, which came with Grip. Is this a good one to use (I'm using cdParanoia, which I assume is the most ecure one I have on my system). How does it compare to EAC?

Xiph's cdparanoia is the most secure extractor you can get for *nix-systems. With un- or not heavily scratched CDs it should be as good as EAC, but suffers from the same problems discussed in numerous CDex (uses cdparanoia) vs. EAC threads. Grip uses a built-in version of cdparanoia (That's what the homepage says; I don't know why the author doesn't just statically link it), which should work as good as the original (external) one. KDE's extraction features in Konqueror as a KIO-slave uses the cdparanoia lib and therefor is safe to use.

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Also EAC runs generally OK with WINE if you take time and set it up correct!

Therefore windows users have no advantage over you! Cdparanoia id great anyway thoough!

Cheers,

Kristian

Any hints for setting it up correctly would be appreciated!

I just get this error
err:aspi:ASPI_GetNumControllers Could not open HKEY_DYN_DATA\WineScsi

Well, i borked all the data on my hard disk about a month ago when overclocking and am waiting to use the fast connection at Warwick uni to re-install Gentoo after 1.4 has been released and so only have windows 2k at the moment.

However, i do recall that WINE would not run EAC at all when i first started to try and get it running. While i can't recall the error exactly, i know it was to do with aspi and EAC would not launch at all. What i did was boot the windows 98 operating stem which i was using to run WINE with, i then installed VOB's ASPI layer and configured EAC to use this within the windows environment, then when i loaded back up Linux, eac would launch OK.


I am sure there was a MUCH easier way around the problem but it worked for me. I would have installed the ASPI layer installer using WINE, but that crashed out unfortunatly.


All the best,

Kristian