[Abcde-users] Change default CDDA2WAV variable to cdrtools cdda2wav

[Roger]

> On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 08:18:03AM +1000, andrew wrote:
>On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 10:57:12AM -0800, Roger wrote:
>
>> The cdrkit (icedax) package was created due to a disagreement many years ago, 
>> and never really flourished into anything aside from creating a
>> little noise.  My guess, it lingers historically in case cdrtools
>> has future problems.
>
>I am not a Debian user but my impression was that the disagreement
>between Debian and Jörg Schilling still continues?

http://cdrkit.org/
2010/10/17
Cdrkit 1.1.11 has been released. 

http://www.cdda2wav.de/
Last Changed: Mon May 29 20:33:55 MET 2012

Think there was much confusion between the libraries since, and most have 
returned to using cdrtools and/or the issues were resolved by looking at the 
last release date of cdrkit.

I'm completely unaware of distribution specific preferences, as I use Gentoo.  
And Gentoo seems to swing with anybody initially making sense. ;-)

Doing a search on Google for "cdrtools or cdrkit" returns an initial most 
recent 2010 result here recommending just to use cdrtools, with some recent 
insight.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-820132-view-previous.html?sid=07425ea79206e50fe97fed438b6f5b5f

Other than this recent post of 2010, all other posts are dated prior to year 
2008/2009 or even 2006.

Also note, the variable name CDDA2WAV incites cdda2wav.  Defaulting to icedax 
doesn't seem right, as most these days have cdrtools installed as far as I'm 
aware.

If cdrkit (icedax) is default for Debian still upon verification by another 
Debian user, probably should be a comment within the abcde.conf file about 
this.  ie:

# Debian uses cdrkit and not cdrtools.  CDRKit has icedax for cdda2wav.
#CDDA2WAV=icedax

On my distribution as well as most, trying to find icedax is a royal pain in 
the @ss, as it's little known to be contained within cdrkit!

But, best to leave this to a Debain (or maybe even Fedora/RedHat) user to reply 
that they still ship with cdrkit by default.  Even if so, they'll likely be 
familar with icedax unlike other Linux users.

It is probably far more assumed, most just use cdparanoia instead of cdda2wav, 
especially since specifying the sample-offset is much easier versus cdda2wav's 
offset implementation from what I've discerned from forum posts. (ie. cdda2wav 
-offset is computed in 1/75 seconds and specifying an integer from 
http://www.accuraterip.com/driveoffsets.htm won't work unless you first convert 
to 1/75 seconds.)  Whether or not icedax even has this option yet, I don't 
know.

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Roger
http://rogerx.freeshell.org/