job that I was at, so I used UDF all the time. It was a great disk format. The problem was that the platforms I was using UDF on, like to go to from Linux to those systems, they dropped UDF support. Because optical media just became not as fashionable, and so they just literally, they just were like, eh, no one will ever need UDF on this platform again, and so it got dropped. So even the thing that was universal, they managed to make non-universal. Shocker, the company that I'm talking about was Apple. CDIO, that's that one. libcdio-paranoia is the CD paranoia library from libcdio. This is a CDDA reader distribution reading audio from the CD-ROM directly as data with no analog step between, so in other words, if you've got, for instance, audio on a disk, which people do sometimes, then the fear is that sometimes the audio could become corrupt during the translation from the disk to a destination, whereas this library allows you to read that data just as raw bits, and when you're (21/54)
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