Tips for a Personal Music Archive

[Nicholas Leippe]

I have my own custom script for ripping & encoding.
I rip each cd twice, once each from two different drives, and compare them.
I have calculated the offsets of each drive and use the -O flag on cdparanoia.
Since I have two drives, and two cpus, I wrote it to do all five tasks at once 
in a pipeline fashion--2 ripping, 1 diffing, and 2 encoding simultaneously.

You might be able to find the offset for your drive from the database here:

http://accuraterip.com/driveoffsets.htm

The offset for cdparanoia is the accuraterip offset plus 6.
The cdparanoia docs say that it works with negative offsets, but I've found 
this to not be the case--so if your drive has a negative offset, you're out 
of luck with cdparanoia.

If you want to calculate your drive's offset, I'd be happy to tell you how.

Nick