Date: Tue, 23 Dec 97 22:38:31 +0100 From: Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: mcgovern@spoon.beta.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Moving CD audio data around with HP 4020i Message-ID: <9712232138.AA20778@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> In-Reply-To: <11091.882892783@time.cdrom.com> (jkh@time.cdrom.com)
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>>>>> Jordan K Hubbard writes:
>> Now, given these seperate sources, can anyone tell me how to read them
>> back on to the harddisk, and then to write them back on to a merged
>> CD?
> Use DOS and some commercial CDR mastering software. :-(
> Sorry, but that's the same answer we came up with when we embarked
> upon this same road here at Walnut Creek CDROM. Some audio CDs have
> very short gaps in between songs and this information is destroyed
> (and a frisbee produced) with any of the UN*X based mastering
> solutions we tried. I wish I could remember the name of the DOS
> software we now use for this now but it totally slips my mind. DOS,
> not being multitasking, is actually an ideal platform for a
> does-it-all CDR software solution since there are no drivers to get in
> the way nor any competition for the CDR or disk. A friend from the
> Linux camp went through this same process and now swears by the DOS
> solution - he tried all the Linux solutions and they all sucked in the
> same ways that the *BSD solutions did. :-(
If your CD is audio only (not audio+data) you _can_ burn disks with
arbitrary gap length between tracks, even 0 second gap (useful for
live recordings). I have burned 10s of them, all on FreeBSD :-)
You just need the right program.
Jean-Marc
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