On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 21:22:02 +0000, Kosmo Threadbane wrote:

> I've tried both the readonly and readwrite drives, /dev/cdrom and
> /dev/cdrom1. They are, respectively, /dev/sg0 and /dev/sg1
> respectively. I've tried various values of the -o parameter,

you're saying /dev/cdrom is a symbolic link to /dev/sg0 etc?

if so, i think that's probably your problem!

on my system (which does cd ripping ok), /dev/cdrom is a symlink to
/dev/scd0 - which i believe is the correct device for ripping audio from
a cd with. if you try using "/dev/scd0" instead of "/dev/cdrom" you might
get somewhere.

> cdparanoia -d "/dev/cdrom" -g "/dev/sg0" -B -- "4-5"

for a start, you don't need the "--" in this situation, it's only needed
when you're doing something like "-5" (i.e., rip to track 5) - so the "-5"
isn't interpreted as an option flag (which is would be otherwise, as
options begin with a "-"). secondly, you *definitely* don't need the
"-g /dev/sg0" option - unless you've got some weird, non-standard setup.

thirdly, have you tried using 'grip'? it's a gui front end to cdparanoia
and lame that can rip whatever tracks you select (by ticking the
individual tracks) and therefore save worrying about cdparanoia command
lines, and optionally encode them as mp3s. i'm quite at home with
command-line stuff, but i find grip a much handier tool than raw
cdparanoia.

will