How To Install cdparanoia on CentOS 8

cdparanoia is Compact Disc Digital Audio (CDDA) extraction tool (or ripper)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cdparanoia on CentOS 8.

What is cdparanoia

Cdparanoia (Paranoia III) reads digital audio directly from a CD, then writes the data to a file or pipe in WAV, AIFC or raw 16 bit linear PCM format. Cdparanoia doesn’t contain any extra features (like the ones included in the cdda2wav sampling utility). Instead, cdparanoia’s strength lies in its ability to handle a variety of hardware, including inexpensive drives prone to misalignment, frame jitter and loss of streaming during atomic reads. Cdparanoia is also good at reading and repairing data from damaged CDs.

We can use yum or dnf to install cdparanoia on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cdparanoia.

Install cdparanoia on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install cdparanoia using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cdparanoia

Install cdparanoia on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install cdparanoia using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cdparanoia

How To Uninstall cdparanoia on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the cdparanoia package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove cdparanoia

cdparanoia Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/cdparanoia
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/97
/usr/lib/.build-id/97/d8b53cc59d5d999cf8b816d697302a98d3de40
/usr/share/doc/cdparanoia
/usr/share/doc/cdparanoia/COPYING-GPL
/usr/share/doc/cdparanoia/COPYING-LGPL
/usr/share/doc/cdparanoia/README
/usr/share/man/man1/cdparanoia.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cdparanoia on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.