Heya guys, I currently have Grip up and running with Cdparanoia as its ripper (not the incorporated one) and Lame for MP3 encoding (using 320 bitrate).

I have it working and configured pretty well, but here lies my question, and what most guides dont realy tell me. How do I configure Grip (or is this Cdparanoia) to not accept Any scratches on disks, and if it cant work through the scratch, to just keep trying, or cancel the process.

Im kinda obsessive with this stuff, I really dont wanna be listening to a song and hear something that sounds slightly odd, but may very well be part of the song, and be wondering if that was a small scratch that Grip/Cdparanoia couldn't work through, so it produced and error or tried to cover it up. (both will produce an audible glitch, even if its slight) If it cant make a flawless rip from a CD for any reason (wither its a scratch or any other read/rip issue where it wont be Exact) I want it to just stop the rip (of that song atleast, if not the entire CD) so I know to trash the CD and get another, or try to repair it if its a rare one.

I hear people talking about "Full Paranoia" in grip, etc but I have no idea what their talking about, I went through all of Cdparanoias commands and there is nothing called "Full Paranoia", so im assuming thats a nickname for the default settings where Paranoia and Extra paranoia arent disabled.
Or are they talking about the -z command where you can set the number of retries to work through a sector it couldnt read at first (most likely a scratch)

Any other recommendations/advice in this area would be helpful too, even if you think it should be to use another Ripper/encoder program if you think there is a better one. (was reading about another ripper called Rubyripper on these forums)

Thanks guys

I have no experience with grip, however, I highly recommend rubyripper.

Cool man I need to know more about that program, just made a thread asking about it, as for the life of me, I cant find any decent info about it, let along anything like the good guides that were out for Grip.

Cdparanoia uses extra-paranoia mode by default. Its a good ripper (used by CDex) but it won't do some fancy stuff done by EAC and caching drives might fool it.

Lets see how this ruby thing turns out