On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 02:04:42 -0500, you wrote: >Changing the interest list to desktop-discuss, which is more appropriate >than opensolaris-discuss. Also making the subject a bit more clear about >what the discussion is about. > >To summarize the discussion so far, J?rg, who is the author of cdda2wav >has explained in great detail why cdda2wav is superior for both CD playback >and ripping than the other tools on Solaris (e.g. sound-juicer and totem >which use GStreamer). > >cdda2wav is a command line tool, and Sun currently ships no GUI that works >with it, so playback and ripping is done via running commands. The GStreamer >based programs access audio CD data via the GStreamer CDDA plugin that was >written here at Sun by Artem and me. > >This GStreamer plugin has no error correction (e.g. libcdparanoia), so >skips and artifacts can creep into your playback and riped files. Also, >many CD drives are unable to read some CD's without using cdda2wav because >cdda2wav uses superior SCSI ioctls. These ioctls require privilege, though, >which are not available to programs that use GStreamer. > >So, how could we fix this:
I have a question first: 1) cdda2wav is part of a package called cdrtools 2) due to relicensing of part of the code in cdrtools almost a year ago most (all?) linux distributions dropped cdrtools as the changes introduced an apparent GPL violation in the eyes of the Linux distributions See http://lwn.net/Articles/195167/ Does this mean Sun believes the Linux community is incorrect in their assessment of the license issues, or is Sun unaware of the issue and entering an area that should be evaluated before effort is made creating GUI and/or gstreamer interfaces for cdda2wav?
