But the whole point of software like whipper or EAC is that they crosscheck your rips with an online DB of rips (and you know, when your rip's checksum match, that it's 100% correct because there's no way you and x other people would have read the same wrong rip, misreading the exact same errors).
As I understand it cdparanoia does not such check. It's "paranoid" by its own but you're not verifying that your rip is 100% perfect.
But then if you then convert it to mp3 and discard the lossless files anyway, I take it you don't care much about data integrity.
whipper and EAC do serve another purpose than cdparanoia (I think, btw, that whipper is something uses cdparanoia under the hood) and I'm pretty sure that people who do care about bitperfect rips do not then go and convert their files to mp3s.
FWIW a .flac file (now a .wav but a .flac: that is lossless and compressed) is about twice the size of a 320 kbps mp3 I think.
Seen that songs are tinier than tiny files compared to modern standards I'm totally fine playing the .flac files I ripped using whipper.
As I understand it cdparanoia does not such check. It's "paranoid" by its own but you're not verifying that your rip is 100% perfect.
But then if you then convert it to mp3 and discard the lossless files anyway, I take it you don't care much about data integrity.
whipper and EAC do serve another purpose than cdparanoia (I think, btw, that whipper is something uses cdparanoia under the hood) and I'm pretty sure that people who do care about bitperfect rips do not then go and convert their files to mp3s.
FWIW a .flac file (now a .wav but a .flac: that is lossless and compressed) is about twice the size of a 320 kbps mp3 I think.
Seen that songs are tinier than tiny files compared to modern standards I'm totally fine playing the .flac files I ripped using whipper.
It's both my audio "source" and my backups.