I try to rip an audio cd on my Librem13 running PureOS. Unfortunately, I see that cdda2wav is distributed from the icedax fork. This looks like being inferior software. For example, does not support the option paraopts=proof or the equivalent meaning of “proof” (that is minoverlap=20,retries=200,readahead=600,c2check)
The cdrtools page on sourceforge claims that this situation is a result of hatred and that distributions providing the forked version even violate the GPL. If true then this is very bad for PureOS. Check:
Now, I would like to ask if it is safe to install the original cdrtools and remove icedax. The make was successful and it remains to run “make install”. I just do not know if this will cause any trouble on PureOS.
[atsol@convex ~]$ cdrecord -version
Cdrecord-yelling-line-to-tell-frontends-to-use-it-like-version 2.01.01a03-dvd
Wodim 1.1.11
Copyright (C) 2006 Cdrkit suite contributors
Based on works from Joerg Schilling, Copyright (C) 1995-2006, J. Schilling
[atsol@convex ~]$ mkisofs -version
mkisofs 2.01 is not what you see here. This line is only a fake for too clever
GUIs and other frontend applications. In fact, this program is:
genisoimage 1.1.11 (Linux)
[atsol@convex ~]$
There has been bad blood between Joerg Schilling and linux distributions for decades.
I usually strongly prefer to use distribution packages, but I resigned myself to build cdrtools from source many years ago.
I really wish they could resolve their technical subtleties and licensing disputes but don’t have much hope that it will happen.
I first started using cdrecord at work on SunOS over 25 years ago because it worked much better than a commercial package costing hundreds of dollars and frequently crashed before it finished writing the (now ruined) disk.