26 Aug
2014
26 Aug
'14
4:09 p.m.
On Tue, 26 Aug 2014, Peter Corlett wrote:
Hi,
The recent thread on AB20 reminded me I have a large pile of CDs from the 1990s
that could do with being imaged and uploaded to archive.org.
What's the best free Unix tool[0] for doing this? Sure, I know about dd and
cdparanoia, but those only extract data and CDDA respectively, and I'd prefer
produce an actual image complete with TOC, subchannels, etc. To *use* the data,
I can always transcode from that into something lossier such as FLAC :) but the
reverse transformation is not possible.
Failing that, I can go off and *write* one, but I'd rather not spend the effort
if something suitable already exists and has already been well-tested and
confirmed to not make subtle errors in rips.
When I rip CDs, I use a script called abcde[1]. All you do is insert a CD
and type the command. After a few minutes you'll end up with audio files
encoded in mp3, ogg, or flac tagged with info from freedb.org. If the CD
isn't listed at freedb.org, easytag is very handy to do the id3 tagging.
Remember that FLAC stands for "Free Lossless Audio Codec". There's
nothing "lossier" about it.
[1] http://code.google.com/p/abcde/ and most Linux repos.
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