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Titolo: [Audio Cd Rescue] E' introvabile, chi lo ospita sul proprio sito?

Mi sono recoconto che Audio CD Rescue non è più disponibile sui vari vt,
macupdate etc.
A chi avesse voglia di tenerlo sul proprio server, lo invierei per email
Pesa meno di 1 MB
Eccone il Read Me completo:
This program is designed to copy audio data from imperfect or damaged
CD's onto your hard disk.  It can't perform miracles with severely
scratched or mutilated discs, but in most cases, it can extract perfect
copies of the audio data.  Disks with slight damage (or degradation due
to age) often sound fine to the casual listener, but AudioCDRescue can
sometimes make their audio sound even better.
System Requirements
In order to use AudioCDRescue, you must have an Apple PowerMac computer
running Mac OS X 10.1 or later, with a CD drive installed.  At this
time, there are no plans to support Mac OS 9; apologies if this causes
any inconvenience.
Installation
Just copy the AudioCDRescue application into your applications folder.
How It Works
AudioCDRescue simply tries to read the entire CD a few times in a row.
If everything seems to come up the same way each time, then the data is
probably good, and is saved to disk.  However, if some block (here, a
six-second chunk of audio data) seems to read differently on different
passes, AudioCDRescue attempts to read it again and again until the
block comes up the same way three times.
Of course, while AudioCDRescue can extract better copies of the audio
data from a bad CD, it can do nothing to fix the physical CD itself.
However, there are commercial products available that claim to be of
help in this regard, such as CD polishing kits that can help erase
surface scratches.  Consult your local music store for more information.
How To Use It
To begin using AudioCDRescue, just launch it.  Insert the suspect audio
CD in the computer and wait for the CD icon to appear on the desktop.
Then drag the CD icon into the AudioCDRescue disc map (the big empty
rectangle in the AudioCDRescue window).  
AudioCDRescue should then display a map of the contents of the audio CD:
each little colored rectangle represents a block within a track.  The
blocks are listed in the usual left-to-right, top-down order, with each
track shown in a different color.
Initially, the blocks are all grayed-out because none of them have yet
been extracted successfully.  To begin extraction, hit the "Extract
Audio" button, which will bring up a dialog to let you create a new
destination directory.  Make sure to create it on a volume with plenty
of free space (see the section on free disk space requirements below).
Once you select the destination, AudioCDRescue will make its first pass
through the CD, showing its current position as a moving white rectangle
on the map.
Note that if any old files are present in the destination directory,
AudioCDRescue will overwrite them with no warning!  This is why it is
recommended that you create a new destination directory each time.
Once the first pass is complete, the CD will automatically eject, and
you will be prompted to reinsert the CD for a second pass.  This
eject/reinsert is the only way to force the computer to take a
completely fresh look at the CD (i.e. to clear Mac OS X's CD data
cache).  When it begins its second pass, AudioCDRescue will begin to
look for bad blocks on the CD.  Each bad block will be labelled with a
number, indicating how many times it has read badly so far.  When a
block has read consistently three times (see the "Preferences" section
below), it is assumed to have been extracted successfully, and is drawn
without being grayed-out.  Any track for which every block has been
successfully extracted is automatically saved to the destination
directory as an audio file.
When AudioCDRescue has finished extracting all the audio data, it copies
the rescued tracks to the specified destination directory.  Now you can
use iTunes (or a similar program) to convert the audio files into MP3's,
which saves a lot of disk space.  For iTunes, the "Convert To MP3"
command is located in the "Advanced" section of the menu bar.  Once the
audio files have been converted into MP3 files, you can trash the huge
CDDA files.
If AudioCDRescue can't rescue all the audio data within a reasonable
number of passes, it will prompt you to stop the extraction process.
You will have the choice of saving the unfinished audio tracks (which
might work fine even though they weren't totally rescued) or discarding
them.
At present, AudioCDRescue does not have the ability to look up the
titles of tracks over the Internet, so once imported into iTunes, the
tracks will have to be renamed manually.
Free Disk Space Requirements
AudioCDRescue needs a lot of space on the destination hard disk to do
its work.  It always needs at least four times the amount of data on the
CD.  A very full CD can have 700 megabytes (MB) of data, so you need at
least 2800 MB (2.8 gigabytes) of free space in the destination directory
.  
If the CD is very damaged, though, AudioCDRescue may need even more
space in order to make temporary copies of the bad parts.  So, at least
4 gigabytes (GB) of free space is recommended for using AudioCDRescue.
When extraction starts, AudioCDRescue creates a temporary file named
"AudioCDRescue.tmp" in the specified directory.  This is normally
deleted automatically when AudioCDRescue finishes extracting.  However,
if AudioCDRescue crashes (unexpectedly exits) or your computer reboots,
this temporary file will be left behind.  Since it is extremely large,
you should manually trash it and empty the trash to recover your free
disk space.
Preferences
The AudioCDRescue preferences window contains only two items: the number
of matching blocks interpreted as indicating that a block has been read
correctly, and the field for entering the registration code (see the
section on registration below).   
The required number of matching blocks defaults to 3.  This is probably
the best value, since if a block comes up the same way three times, it
is extremely likely to be correct.  Higher values will cause
AudioCDRescue to take longer and use up more disk space, but will
decrease the chance of error even further.  Lower values are not
recommended, as AudioCDRescue would be much more likely to save bad
data.
Tips And Hints
If the extraction process completes successfully, and no error blocks
are shown in the disc map window, it may be best to discard the
extracted audio files, and just import the CD into iTunes directly,
because iTunes can often identify the CD over the Internet  and set the
track names automatically.
Sometimes, a given CD might have trouble (e.g. parts of songs are lost)
when imported directly into iTunes, yet show no problems in
AudioCDRescue.  There is no obvious explanation for this phenomenon, but
it has been repeatedly observed.  In these cases, converting the
AudioCDRescue output files into MP3's using iTunes gives excellent
results.
Tracks converted into MP3's using iTunes are placed in the "Music Folder
Location" specified in the "Advanced" section of the iTunes preferences.
Unfortunately, tracks produced by AudioCDRescue all end up in the folder
"Unknown Album" inside the folder "Unknown Artist".  If you convert
multiple albums, the contents of this folder can get very confusing.
After converting each AudioCDRescue output directory into MP3's, you may
wish to rename these "unknown" folders to reflect the desired names of
the artist and album.
On audio CD's, the data is written along a microscopic "groove" that
spirals from the inside out (the opposite of a vinyl record).  So, if a
CD appears scratched near the outside edge, the last tracks on the disc
are the ones most likely to be affected.  Also, CD's can pack more data
into the outside than the inside (because there's more area), so if a CD
is damaged midway between the inside and outside edge, the problems are
most likely to occur about 1/3 of the way into the disc audio files.
Caveats
AudioCDRescue cannot perform miracles, so you may have some CD's that
are too damaged for AudioCDRescue to handle.  When you insert an audio
CD into the computer, a little CD icon normally appears on your desktop
within a few seconds, usually named "Audio CD".  This shows that the Mac
was able to read enough of it to recognize it as an audio CD, and find
out how many tracks it supposedly contains.  If an audio CD is so
damaged that the Mac will not mount it, AudioCDRescue cannot even begin
to process it.
Sometimes, while reading very damaged CD's, AudioCDRescue may appear to
"lock up" for a few moments.  These usually mean that AudioCDRescue is
waiting for the CD drive to recover from errors, so the freeze should be
temporary.  
In some rare cases, AudioCDRescue might claim it has successfully
extracted all the audio files, yet some tracks are still obviously bad
when played.  The only solution would be to try AudioCDRescue again,
since it probably won't be fooled a second time.  
Registration
Unregistered copies of AudioCDRescue will not rescue even-numbered
tracks, e.g. track number 2, track number 4, etc..  However,
AudioCDRescue will still look at the odd-numbered tracks, and tell you
which ones it should be able to rescue once you register.
AudioCDRescue registration is $20, payable via PayPal to
"
zon...@zonjiru.com
".  Just transfer $20 to that PayPal account, and
you will receive a license code via E-mail within one working day.
Bug Reports And Feedback
Please mail all bug reports, suggestions, questions, etc. to
"
sup...@zonjiru.com
", and they will be read as soon as possible.
Feedback is greatly appreciated, whether positive or negative.
Thanks for reading these release notes!
Zonjiru

 BTW io lo usai in primavera (senza risultati su CD rovinati abbestia)
In effetti, dal Read Me l'autore non assicura miracoli...

 ... e quindi sarebbe legale o no metterlo in rete?
in effetti ci ho pensato e ho scritto allo sviluppatore; vediamo se mi
risponde.

 macupdate etc.
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