paranoia: news

June 10, 2008

cdparanoia 10.0 final released

This release is mostly intended to keep up with bugfixes and kernel changes over the past few years. Cdparanoia 10 is intended to be the last major release of the Paranoia III series (which maintains out-of-the-box compatability with linux kernels all the way back to Linux 2.0) before restarting development of Paranoia IV, which will be a break with the older versions.

Aside from bugfixes and updates to match the Linux kernel, 10.0 includes two significant changes:

1. Release 10.0 updates the cdparanoia tool license to the GPLv3, and relicenses the cdparanoia libraries (cdda_interface.so and cdda_paranoia.so) under the LGPLv3.

2. When using an MMC drive, cdparanoia attempts to set the DAP bit to request that cdrom drives should use hardware interpolation to reconstruct over completely destroyed samples. This should eliminate the substantial audible differences some drives produce when playing back a disc as audio as opposed to ripping as data.

May 6, 2008

Pillage for OS X released: Graphical Cdparanoia for MacOS

"Gentlemen - Pillage. Is. Alive!"

http://www.bratproductions.com/software/pillage.html