NAME
    cdparanoia (Paranoia release III) - an audio CD reading utility which
    includes extra data verification features

DATE
    version III release alpha 9.8 (02 Mar 2001)

SYNOPSIS
    cdparanoia [options] span [outfile]

DESCRIPTION
    cdparanoia retrieves audio tracks from CDDA capable CDROM drives.  The
    data can be saved to  a file or directed to standard output in WAV,
    AIFF, AIFF-C or raw format. Most ATAPI, SCSI and several proprietary
    CDROM drive makes are supported; cdparanoia can determine if the target
    drive is CDDA capable.

    In addition to simple reading, cdparanoia adds extra-robust data  veri-
    fication, synchronization, error handling and scratch reconstruction
    capability.

OPTIONS
    -v --verbose
    Be absurdly verbose about the autosensing and reading process.
    Good for setup and debugging.

    -q --quiet
    Do not print any progress or error information during the read-
    ing process.

    -e --stderr-progress
    Force output of progress information to  stderr  (for wrapper
    scripts).

    -V --version
    Print the program version and quit.

    -Q --query
    Perform CDROM drive autosense, query and print the CDROM table
    of contents, then quit.

    -s --search-for-drive
    Forces a complete search for a cdrom  drive,  even if the
    /dev/cdrom link exists.

    -h --help
    Print a brief synopsis of cdparanoia usage and options.

    -p --output-raw
    Output headerless data as raw 16 bit PCM data with interleaved
    samples in host byte order. To force little or big endian byte
    order, use -r or -R as described below.

    -r --output-raw-little-endian
    Output headerless data as raw 16 bit PCM data with interleaved
    samples in LSB first byte order.

    -R --output-raw-big-endian
    Output headerless data as raw 16 bit PCM data with interleaved
    samples in MSB first byte order.

    -w --output-wav
    Output data in Micro$oft RIFF WAV format (note that WAV data is
    always LSB first byte order).

    -f --output-aiff
    Output data in Apple AIFF format (note that AIFC data is always
    in MSB first byte order).

    -a --output-aifc
    Output data in uncompressed Apple AIFF-C format (note that AIFF-
    C data is always in MSB first byte order).

    -B --batch

    Cdda2wav-style batch output flag; cdparanoia will split the out-
    put into multiple files at track boundaries. Output file names
    are prepended with 'track#.'

    -c --force-cdrom-little-endian
    Some CDROM drives misreport their endianness (or do not report
    it at all); it's possible that cdparanoia will guess wrong. Use
    -c to force cdparanoia to treat the drive  as a little endian
    device.

    -C --force-cdrom-big-endian
    As above but force cdparanoia to treat the drive as a big endian
    device.

    -n --force-default-sectors n
    Force the interface backend to do atomic reads of n sectors per
    read.  This number can  be misleading; the kernel will often
    split read requests into multiple atomic reads (the automated
    Paranoia code is aware  of this) or allow reads only wihin a
    restricted size range. This option should generally not be
    used.

    -d --force-cdrom-device device
    Force the interface backend to read from device rather than the
    first readable CDROM drive it finds. This can be used to  spec-
    ify devices of any valid interface type (ATAPI, SCSI or propri-
    etary).

    -g --force-generic-device device
    This option is used along with -d when one wants explicit con-
    trol in setting both the SCSI cdrom and generic devices seper-
    ately. This option is only useful on non-standard SCSI setups.

    -S --force-read-speed number
    Use this option explicitly to set the read rate of the CD  drive
    (where supported).  This can reduce underruns on machines with
    slow disks, or which are low on memory.

    -t --toc-offset number
    Use this option to force the entire disc LBA addressing to shift
    by the given amount; the value is added to the beginning offsets
    in the TOC. This can be used to shift track boundaries for the
    whole disc manually on sector granularity. The next option does
    something similar...

    -T --toc-bias
    Some drives (usually random Toshibas) report the  actual  track
    beginning offset values in the TOC, but then treat the beginning
    of track 1 index 1 as sector 0 for all read operations.  This
    results in every track seeming to start too late (losing a bit
    of the beginning and catching a bit of the next track).  -T
    accounts for this behavior. Note that this option will cause
    cdparanoia to attempt to read sectors before or past the  known
    user data area of the disc, resulting in read errors at disc
    edges on most drives and possibly  even hard lockups on some
    buggy hardware.

    -O --sample-offset number
    Use this  option to force the entire disc to shift sample posi-
    tion output by the given amount; This can be used to shift track
    boundaries for the whole disc manually on sample granularity.
    Note that this will cause cdparanoia to attempt to read partial
    sectors before or past  the known user data area of the disc,
    probably causing read errors on most drives and possibly even
    hard lockups on some buggy hardware.

    -Z --disable-paranoia
    Disable all data verification and correction features. When
    using -Z, cdparanoia reads data exactly as would cdda2wav with
    an overlap setting of zero. This option implies that -Y is
    active.

    -z --never-skip[=max_retries]
    Do not accept any skips; retry forever if needed.  An optional
    maximum number of retries can  be specified; for comparison,
    default without -z is currently 20.

    -Y --disable-extra-paranoia
    Disables intra-read data verification; only overlap checking at
    read boundaries is performed. It can wedge if errors occur in
    the attempted overlap area. Not recommended.

    -X --abort-on-skip
    If the read skips due to imperfect data, a scratch, whatever,
    abort reading this track. If output is to a file, delete the
    partially completed file.

OUTPUT SMILIES
  :-) 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 reread; hard to cor-
    rect

  :-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

PROGRESS BAR SYMBOLS
    <space>
    No corrections needed

  -  Jitter correction required

  +  Unreported loss of streaming/other error in read

  !  Errors found after stage 1 correction; the drive is making the
    same error through multiple re-reads, and cdparanoia is having
    trouble detecting them.

  e  SCSI/ATAPI transport error (corrected)

  V  Uncorrected error/skip

SPAN ARGUMENT
    The span argument specifies which track, tracks or subsections of
    tracks to read. This argument is required. NOTE: Unless the span is a
    simple number, it's generally a good idea to quote the span argument to
    protect it from the shell.

    The span argument may be a simple track number or an offset/span speci-
    fication. The syntax of an offset/span takes the rough form:

    1[ww:xx:yy.zz]-2[aa:bb:cc.dd]

    Here, 1  and 2  are track numbers; the numbers in brackets provide a
    finer grained offset within a particular  track.  [aa:bb:cc.dd] is in
    hours/minutes/seconds/sectors format. Zero fields need not be speci-
    fied: [::20], [:20], [20], [20.], etc, would be interpreted as twenty
    seconds,  [10:] would be ten minutes, [.30] would be thirty sectors (75
    sectors per second).

    When only a single offset is supplied, it is interpreted as a starting
    offset and ripping will continue to the end of the track. If a single
    offset is preceeded or followed by a hyphen, the implicit missing off-
    set is taken to be the start or end of the disc, respectively. Thus:

    1:[20.35]
    Specifies  ripping from track 1, second 20, sector 35 to the end
    of track 1.

    1:[20.35]-
    Specifies ripping from 1[20.35] to the end of the disc

    -2   Specifies ripping from the beginning of the disc up to (and
    including) track 2

    -2:[30.35]
    Specifies ripping from the beginning of the disc up to 2:[30.35]

    2-4  Specifies ripping from the beginning of track 2 to the end of
    track 4.

    Again, don't forget to protect square brackets and preceeding hyphens
    from the shell.

EXAMPLES
    A few examples, protected from the shell:

    Query only with exhaustive search for a drive and full  reporting of
    autosense:

    cdparanoia -vsQ

    Extract an entire disc, putting each track in a seperate file:

    cdparanoia -B

    Extract from track 1, time 0:30.12 to 1:10.00:

    cdparanoia "1[:30.12]-1[1:10]"

    Extract from the beginning of the disc up to track 3:

    cdparanoia -- "-3"

    The "--" above is to distinguish "-3" from an option flag.

OUTPUT
    The output file argument is optional; if it is not specified, cdpara-
    noia will output samples to one of cdda.wav, cdda.aifc, or cdda.raw
    depending on whether -w, -a, -r or -R is used (-w is  the implicit
    default). The output file argument of - specifies standard output; all
    data formats may be piped.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
    Cdparanoia sprang from and once drew heavily from the  interface of
    Heiko  Eissfeldt's  (heiko@colossus.escape.de)  'cdda2wav' package.
    Cdparanoia would not have happened without it.

    Joerg Schilling has also contributed SCSI expertise through his generic
    SCSI transport library.

AUTHOR
    Monty <monty@xiph.org>

    Cdparanoia's homepage may be found at:

     http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/