[LAU] CLI interface for bit-for-bit duplication of CDs?

[Roger]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> I wonder what the command line folks do here for CD duplication. I
> need to duplicate some new studio CDs for listening in different
> environment. The CDs require gapless writing - no 2 second gap -  as
> some songs flow from track to track. They also should support CD Text.
>
> In the past I've done this stuff in k3b but for some reason many of
> the copies of new CD-Rs I'm receiving aren't playing in my car stereo.
> Strange as the original CD-Rs play perfectly. I've tried 4 different
> media types. It's always the same CD-R copies that fail. My copies
> work elsewhere - Windows iTunes ripping, my home CD player, my wife's
> car - just not my car.
>
> How do folks get bit-perfect CDs and what extra steps can I take to
> get these tough CD-R copies to play? Write slower, libparanoia, what
> else?
>
> As I'm not a CLI guy at all if you can provide some test commands for
> me to play with I'd really appreciate it.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
> P.S. - I have also tried cleaning the car CD player with one of those
> special discs but it didn't help. - MWK
>
> P.S.2. - Doesn't *have* to be CLI, but I think I'd like to do it that
> way so I can try it in Cygwin also. - MWK again... ;-)
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>   
I've used K3b quite a few times to copy commercial CDs to play on the PA 
at the pub where I work. Too much change of damage or loss to take the 
original.
Burn at the slowest speed possible and use Exact Copy not Clone Copy.

Roger