The first patch (cdparanoia-III-alpha9.8-toc.diff) fixes a problem which would prevent cdparanoia from reading a CD if there are pre-tracks on the CD. Patch was accepted and commited to the cdparanoia CVS/SVN tree back in November 2002. I've been using it successfully since 2002. (Xiph are moving their mail servers currently, so the supplied URL may no longer be valid.) The second patch (cdparanoia-III-alpha9.8-solve-crash.patch) is from SUSE and fixes a crash if cdparanoia is unable to identify the CDROM model.
Created attachment 38580 [details, diff] cdparanoia-III-alpha9.8-toc.diff
Created attachment 38581 [details, diff] cdparanoia-III-alpha9.8-solve-crash.patch
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