CDDA playback on Pismo (and other newer models)

[Henry Worth]

On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Nelson Abramson wrote:

> Henry Worth wrote:
>
> > <snip>
> > Using the ATAPI CD drivers there are underruns with significant
> > dropouts every couple of seconds. Various hdparms and cdparanoia
> > parms were tried with no significant change. These include various
>
> <snip>
>
> I had issues using the "cdparanoia 1- - | play - -t WAV" until I realized
> that cdparanaoia was trying to do on the fly error correcting, resulting
> in the pause every few seconds.  By using the "-Z" flag, which turned off
> the error correcting, I got excellent playback with no skips what-so-ever
> on my Pismo.
>

Thanks, that works great with both the atapi and ide-scsi interfaces.
The sector rates for atapi is 3x what it was before. I still think the
aiff format may sound a tad better, the wav format seems a little
thin in comparison. For aiff the command would be:

cdparanoia 1- -Z -f - | play - -t aiff


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