cdparanoia is a compact disc ripper for *nix and BeOS, developed by Xiph.org.

It is designed to be a minimalistic, high-quality CD ripper that would be able to compensate for and adjust to poor hardware to produce a flawless rip.

libparanoia is a portable and platform-independent library that was made from the important parts ripped from the Linux/gcc-only program cdparanoia.

cdparanoia is developed by Xiph.org, the same team behind Vorbis and Theora, who provide public Subversion read-only access.

The project began as a set of patches to cdda2wav, called Paranoia I and II that provided limited error correction and supported few drives.