[oi-dev] sound-juicer removal?

[Alexander Pyhalov]

On 04/ 4/17 12:16 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Alexander Pyhalov <alp at rsu.ru> wrote:
>
>> Hello.
>>
>> After updating brasero I've looked at sound-juicer to check that it
>> didn't break... OK, old sound juicer doesn't work with new brasero.
>
> Did you verify whether this brasero "update" gives you any benefit or whether
> it just contains modifications to use the buggy "cdrkit" instead of the
> "cdrtools" original and thus should be avoided?
>
> There have been many people asking for better CD GUI support and these people
> usually complain about brasero. As a result, Thomas Niederreiter recently
> started to work again on X-CDroast...

Hi.
As I see, it ships both plugins, for cdrkit and cdrtools.

>
>
>> New sound juicer requires cdparanoia gstreamer 1.0 plugin. We don't ship
>> it, because cdparanoia was never properly ported to Solaris.
>> I've looked at porting it yesterday, but the most I could do so far - is
>> to make it get the correct list of CD devices. Now I need to look at
>> scsi logic, and I'm afraid it'll take too much effort...
>> Oracle just removed sound juicer.
>
> Cdparanoia is:
>
> 1)	non-portable
>
> 2)	just a patch on a cdda2wav version from 1997 that never updated
> 	the cdda2wav base
>
> 3)	includes bugs in the paranoia code.
>
> 4)	The plugin you have in mind is probably based on a buggy paranoia
> 	*library* that has been created by people that did not care about quality.
>
> If you like to get the intended features from cdparanoia, just use cdda2wav.
> It includes paranoia support since April 2002. This is based on reworked
> paranoia code that has been converted into a portable library "libparanoia".
>
> There have been many bugfixes (e.g. core dumps and problems with sliding
> overlap) since then and there is even basic C2-pointer support since a while.
> A new paranioa mode "proof" in cdda2wav massively enhances the quality if you
> select it.
>
> There is a gstreamer plugin that calls cdda2wav. It is available as
> "libgstcdda2wav" that calls cdda2wav in an "interactive mode" via three pipes
> that allows to tell cdda2wav which block ranges to read and to write to
> stdout.....

Is there corresponding gstreamer1 plugin?

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Best regards,
Alexander Pyhalov,
system administrator of Southern Federal University IT department