USAGE:

  @CDPARANOIA_NAME@ [options]  [outfile]

OPTIONS:

  -A --analyze-drive              : run and log a complete analysis of drive

                                    caching, timing and reading behavior;

                                    verifies that cdparanoia is correctly

                                    modelling a specific drive's cache and

                                    read behavior. Implies -vQL

  -v --verbose                    : extra verbose operation

  -q --quiet                      : quiet operation

  -e --stderr-progress            : force output of progress information to

                                    stderr (for wrapper scripts)

  -l --log-summary         <file> : save result summary to file

  -L --log-debug           <file> : save detailed device autosense and

                                    debugging output to file

  -V --version                    : print version info and quit

  -Q --query                      : autosense drive, query disc and quit

  -B --batch                      : 'batch' mode (saves each track to a

                                    seperate file.

  -s --search-for-drive           : do an exhaustive search for drive

  -h --help                       : print help

  -p --output-raw                 : output raw 16 bit PCM in host byte 

                                    order

  -r --output-raw-little-endian   : output raw 16 bit little-endian PCM

  -R --output-raw-big-endian      : output raw 16 bit big-endian PCM

  -w --output-wav                 : output as WAV file (default)

  -f --output-aiff                : output as AIFF file

  -a --output-aifc                : output as AIFF-C file

  -c --force-cdrom-little-endian  : force treating drive as little endian

  -C --force-cdrom-big-endian     : force treating drive as big endian

  -n --force-default-sectors <n>  : force default number of sectors in read

                                    to n sectors

  -o --force-search-overlap  <n>  : force minimum overlap search during

                                    verification to n sectors

  -d --force-cdrom-device   <dev> : use specified device; disallow 

                                    autosense

  -k --force-cooked-device  <dev> : really an alias for -d. Kept for 

                                    compatibility.

  -g --force-generic-device <dev> : really an alias for -d. Kept for 

                                    compatibility.

  -S --force-read-speed <n>       : read from device at specified speed; by

                                    default, cdparanoia sets drive to full

                                    speed.

  -t --toc-offset <n>             : Add <n> sectors to the values reported

                                    when addressing tracks. May be negative

  -T --toc-bias                   : Assume that the beginning offset of 

                                    track 1 as reported in the TOC will be

                                    addressed as LBA 0.  Necessary for some

                                    Toshiba drives to get track boundaries

                                    correct

  -m --mmc-timeout <n>            : Set SCSI-MMC timeout to <n> seconds.

  -O --sample-offset <n>          : Add <n> samples to the offset when

                                    reading data.  May be negative.

  -z --never-skip[=n]             : never accept any less than perfect

                                    data reconstruction (don't allow 'V's)

                                    but if [n] is given, skip after [n]

                                    retries without progress.

  -Z --disable-paranoia           : disable all paranoia checking

  -Y --disable-extra-paranoia     : only do cdda2wav-style overlap checking

  -X --abort-on-skip              : abort on imperfect reads/skips

  -x --test-flags=mask            : simulate CD-reading errors of ilk-mask n

                                    mask & 0x10  - simulate underrun errors

OUTPUT SMILIES:

  :-)   Normal operation, low/no jitter

  :-|   Normal operation, considerable jitter

  :-/   Read drift

  :-P   Unreported loss of streaming in atomic read operation

  8-|   Finding read problems at same point during reread; hard to correct

  :-0   SCSI/ATAPI transport error

  :-(   Scratch detected

  ;-(   Gave up trying to perform a correction

  8-X   Aborted (as per -X) due to a scratch/skip

  :^D   Finished extracting

PROGRESS BAR SYMBOLS:

<space> No corrections needed

   -    Jitter correction required

   +    Unreported loss of streaming/other error in read

   !    Errors are getting through stage 1 but corrected in stage2

   e    SCSI/ATAPI transport error (corrected)

   V    Uncorrected error/skip

SPAN ARGUMENT:

The span argument may be a simple track number or a offset/span

specification.  The syntax of an offset/span takes the rough form:

                       1[ww:xx:yy.zz]-2[aa:bb:cc.dd] 

Here, 1 and 2 are track numbers; the numbers in brackets provide a

finer grained offset within a particular track. [aa:bb:cc.dd] is in

hours/minutes/seconds/sectors format. Zero fields need not be

specified: [::20], [:20], [20], [20.], etc, would be interpreted as

twenty seconds, [10:] would be ten minutes, [.30] would be thirty

sectors (75 sectors per second).

When only a single offset is supplied, it is interpreted as a starting

offset and ripping will continue to the end of he track.  If a single

offset is preceeded or followed by a hyphen, the implicit missing

offset is taken to be the start or end of the disc, respectively. Thus:

    1:[20.35]    Specifies ripping from track 1, second 20, sector 35 to 

                 the end of track 1.

    1:[20.35]-   Specifies ripping from 1[20.35] to the end of the disc

    -2           Specifies ripping from the beginning of the disc up to

                 (and including) track 2

    -2:[30.35]   Specifies ripping from the beginning of the disc up to

                 2:[30.35]

    2-4          Specifies ripping from the beginning of track two to the

                 end of track 4.

Don't forget to protect square brackets and preceeding hyphens from

the shell...

A few examples, protected from the shell:

  A) query only with exhaustive search for a drive and full reporting

     of autosense:

       @CDPARANOIA_NAME@ -vsQ

  B) extract up to and including track 3, putting each track in a separate

     file:

       @CDPARANOIA_NAME@ -B -- "-3"

  C) extract from track 1, time 0:30.12 to 1:10.00:

       @CDPARANOIA_NAME@ "[:30.12]-1[1:10]"

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