Specify max amount of retries per sector about libcdio-paranoia HOT 6 OPEN

What you suggest - limiting the maximum number of rereads or rereads/per specific sector, makes sense, especially if put under a flag.

My suggestion then is to code this up and try it. If that seems to work fine we can then put it here and let people try it. If there are no objections, then put out a release.

With respect to cdparanoia, I don't have any more insight or inside information than you do.

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So after many hours of hitting my head against the wall, I found out that --never-skip=X actually should have some effect, but this piece of code prevents it from being anything but a multiple of 5...

Why is that mod even there?

Anyway, with that removed, I can now play with different --never-skip=X settings. With --never-skip=1, it basically doesn't really do any verification beyond the bare minimum, but it's still miles better than just -Z, where I have seen it lose 10+ seconds of audio at times, and then offset everything back by 10 seconds, essentially completely messing up the tracks. (Of course, these were tests, and this doesn't happen with paranoia enabled, so don't see this as a bug!)

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Why is that mod even there?

That code hasn't been changed from cdparanoia-III-10.2. I haven't a clue as to why it's there other than what's in the comments which also pretty much go back to the original cdparanoia.

Actually, I do see a comment add a little above the line you cite:

    /* ???: To be studied
     */

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I've replied to the paranoia mailing -- not sure if you're on the list: https://marc.info/?l=cdparanoia&m=158763276007524&w=2

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I am not on that list. If you don't get any response there, you might also try [email protected] which is low volume but a little more active. Thanks to spammers you have to join the list in order to post, but as I said, there is very little mail and of course you can ask people to email you directly and unsubscribe in a little while.

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