[linux-audio-user] ISO images from Audio CD's?

[Speaker to Vegetables]

I think it's possible to extract a whole audio CD into one huge .wav 
file, and extract the track-start times into another file. But what 
people usually do instead is extract each track to its own .wav file. 
There are lots of "player" programs that can easily play a list of .wav 
files. 

cdda2wav and cdparanoia are the basic programs for extracting digital 
audio from audio CDs (keyword: ripper). In the versions I have used, 
cdparanoia in paranoid mode still gets perfect results for some CD / 
drive combinations that cdda2wav cannot read accurately. Inaccurate 
read meaning the wav file ends up with a nasty noise somewhere in the 
middle of the song.

There are lots of GUI front-ends to the basic CD rippers, if you are 
into that sort of thing. If you are lucky enought to find one that does 
what you need, correctly, you can save some manpage decrypting time 
that way.

On Sunday 08 December 2002 06:53 am, Dave Price wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> I read (somewhere) that it is possible to make a directly useable
> Hard Disk 'Image File' from an Audio-CD.
>
> I am familiar with mkisofs for sets of data files and mounting the
> iso-9660 images as loop(ed) devices to access the files within the
> resulting image file.
>
> Also, I know that cdrdao builds a .bin temp file when you make a copy
> ...
>
> Are these files interchangeable?  How would one mount an Audio 'image
> file' to play it, since you usually do not mount Audio CD's - players
> like xmms just use the raw device (right?)
>
> Any hints or pointers (urls) would be appreciated.
>
> aloha,
> dave

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