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cdparanoia


Information about the package, cdparanoia, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The cdparanoia package is designed for, A Compact Disc Digital Audio (CDDA) extraction tool (or ripper)..


Package Name:

cdparanoia

Summary:

A Compact Disc Digital Audio (CDDA) extraction tool (or ripper).

Description:

Cdparanoia (Paranoia III) reads digital audio directly from a CD, then writes the data to a file or pipe in WAV, AIFC or raw 16 bit linear PCM format. Cdparanoia doesn't contain any extra features (like the ones included in the cdda2wav sampling utility). Instead, cdparanoia's strength lies in its ability to handle a variety of hardware, including inexpensive drives prone to misalignment, frame jitter and loss of streaming during atomic reads. Cdparanoia is also good at reading and repairing data from damaged CDs.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

10.2

Release:

5.1.el6

Size:

38 k

Repository:

base

From Repository:

Licence:

GPLv2 and LGPLv2



Handy Yum Commands for cdparanoia


Control the cdparanoia package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install cdparanoia

This command will install cdparanoia on the server.

yum remove cdparanoia

This command will un-install cdparanoia on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove cdparanoia, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove cdparanoia

This command will un-install cdparanoia on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove cdparanoia when using the -y flag.

yum update cdparanoia

This command will update cdparanoia to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove cdparanoia, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update cdparanoia

This command will update cdparanoia to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove cdparanoia when using the -y flag.

yum info cdparanoia

This command will show you core information about the cdparanoia package.

yum deplist cdparanoia

This command will show you the dependencies for cdparanoia. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.

yum check-update cdparanoia

This command will check if there is an update waiting on cdparanoia. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.