What is "cdparanoia"

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 off of the Linux/gcc-only program cdparanoia. Libparanoia is part of cdrtools.