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Note that cdrao is based on a libscg (from cdrtools) that is too old
to include correct support for Linux-2.6.

On the other side, cdrtools are known to deliver better quality for copying 
Audio CDs.

cdda2wav implements -paranoia and this gives much better results than using
the program "cdparanoia", as cdparanoia is still based on a cdda2wav source 
from 1997 while cdda2wav increased it's low level device support in a 
significant way since then. There are e.g. workarounds for all known defects
in Audio CDs, even those defects that have been added intentionally by 
companies like e.g. Sony.


Both cdrecord and cdda2wav have been designed to deal with audio CDs the way the
audio CD was designed. This means:

	The Pregap for Track #4 is a logical part of Track #3.

Or in other words: The audio data at the end of the file related to track #3
is what you see in the "pregap for track #4" but what you hear is related to 
the last seconds of the content in track #3.

Both cdrecord and cdda2wav implement this rule in a consistent way and this 
allows you to reorder the tracks without a need to edit any audio content
from e.g. .wav files. You just need to keep the .wav/.inf pairs for every
track intact.

As a hint for writing CD content from external sources: cdrecord supports to 
write .CUE/.BIN Files in a more complete and correct way than cdrdao does. 
You need to use a cdrecord from December or newer, so this does of course not
work with wodim.



Best regards

Jörg

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