[Pkg-opt-media-team] Bug#558609: cdparanoia no longer works, should retire

[Rogério Brito]

severity 558609 important
tags 558609 moreinfo unreproducible
thanks

On Nov 29 2009, Tong Sun wrote:
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable

Hey, not so fast.

> I found that cdparanoia no longer works now:

"It works for me" (TM) on my system. In fact, I'm just using it to rip a
CD *this* exact moment (well, as I am one of the maintainers, I am
sincerely interested in this package).

> It says "no audio on disc", but there is one.

OK, some more information could be provided, to that we can narrow
things down.

> Running
> 
>  cdparanoia -vsQ
> 
> will give only track 0 with 00:00:00 length. 
> 
> If rip with 
> 
>  cdparanoia 0
> 
> will get loads of:
> 
>   scsi_read error: sector=-2 length=1 retry=7
> 		   Sense key: 5 ASC: 21 ASCQ: 0
> 		   Transport error: Illegal SCSI request (rejected by target)
> 		   System error: Invalid argument
>   scsi_read error: sector=-2 length=1 retry=8
> 		   Sense key: 5 ASC: 21 ASCQ: 0
> 		   Transport error: Illegal SCSI request (rejected by target)
> 		   System error: Invalid argument
>    (== PROGRESS == [                              | ...... 00 ] == :^D o ==) ^C
> 
> and only get a cdda.wav file of 44 bytes.

Right, just the header.

> For the record, I then installed icedax, and it worked just fine:
> 
>  $ icedax 
>  Type: ROM, Vendor 'SONY    ' Model 'CD-RW  CRX195E1 ' Revision 'ZYS5' MMC+CDDA
>  569344 bytes buffer memory requested, 4 buffers, 55 sectors
>  #icedax version 1.1.9, real time sched., soundcard, libparanoia support
                                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I'm not really familiar with icedax since I switched over from when it
was called cdda2wav many, many, many moons ago.

The part that I explicited gives some hings, though.

> Ops, just realized that the version that I've installed is
> v3.10.2+debian-8 from testing, not the v3.10.2+debian-9 from
> unstable. So the problem might be solved.

That version is functionally the same as -8, since Takaki formalized the
transference of the package that was orphaned to a new team.

But many questions are pending:

* Is the drive an IDE/PATA drive or a SATA drive?
* What is the driver that your kernel uses for the drive?
* If you use an IDE/PATA drive, have you tried using Linux's IDE layer?
  And the SATA "fake" layer (via libata)?
* Have you tested audio extraction with other (older, newer) kernels?


Regards, Rogério Brito.

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