If you want to rip a music cd to wav files (or what format ever) and you ever were (or always are) wondering, what the paranoia mode is or the paranoia levels, and why there is hardly any information about this topic in the whole wide web – here is help:
K3B (at least my version running on Ubuntu 9.04) offers a very convenient context help. You simply have to right click on the feature you are interested in. And here is what it says:
0: No checking, data is copied directly from the drive. 1: Perform overlapped reading to avoid jitter. 2: Like 1 but with additional checks of the read audio data. 3: Like 2 but with additional scratch detection and repair.
