A
Linux command line program designed to "rip" digital audio CD's to
wav files, which then can be converted to
mp3 or
Ogg Vorbis formats via an encoder such as
bladeenc or
oggenc. The "paranoia" angle relates to the extremely thorough error checking used by the program.
I have ripped extremely scratched, unplayable CD's using cdparanoia; the program is quite amazing. A heavily damaged CD can take a while, however. Since
Copy Protected CD's typically mimic a damaged CD, cdparanoia can rip these without difficulty.