From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 29 08:10:53 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C219106564A for ; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:10:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri@rawbw.com) Received: from shell.rawbw.com (shell.rawbw.com [198.144.192.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FF178FC13 for ; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:10:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri@rawbw.com) Received: from eagle.syrec.org (c-67-188-126-36.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.188.126.36]) (authenticated bits=0) by shell.rawbw.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id mAT8AkLD042156; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:10:46 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4930F904.6060702@rawbw.com> Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 00:10:44 -0800 From: Yuri User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081127) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Polytropon References: <4930EEBB.7050701@rawbw.com> <20081129084852.6d00f2e5.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20081129084852.6d00f2e5.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Copying audio CD with dd/cdrecord produces unplayable CD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: yuri@rawbw.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:10:53 -0000 Polytropon wrote: > > It sounds like "byte order reversal" which makes the typical noise. > In order to 1:1 copy a CD, I'd recommend the use of the cdrdao > tool - "cdrdao read-cd" and "cdrdao write" are the commands. > It's easy to use them in order to get a CD "at once" and then > reproduce it to blank media. > > If you need to use cdrecord, you can "preprocess" the .cdr > files with "sox -x". You can always use the "play" command > (from sox) to check what your files sound like. > > This is a sample command to turn .cdr files into .wav files, > just to illustrate the correct parameters for interpreting > the .cdr (CD audio data) format: > > sox -r 14400 -c 2 -b -L -S ${OUTFILE}.cdr ${OUTFILE}.wav > > > Thank you Polytropon, Byte order was really a problem. Strange that burncd is supposed to take the original byteorder and cdrecord takes reversed one. > I didn't try burncd since FreeBSD 4. Since then, I#m very > comfortable with cdrecord and cdrdao and the atapicam facility. > burncd is still recommended by handbook for ATAPI CDROMs for some reason. I feel like cdrecord is much nicer and once suggested to retire burncd in handbook and to always recommend cdrecord instead. But some people disagreed. Thanks for your helpful response, Yuri