From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 22 20:51:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA00716 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 20:51:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from spoon.beta.com (root@mcgovern.ne.mediaone.net [24.128.19.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA00699; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 20:51:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mcgovern@spoon.beta.com) Received: from spoon.beta.com (mcgovern@localhost.ne.mediaone.net [127.0.0.1] (may be forged)) by spoon.beta.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA04403; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 23:51:16 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mcgovern@spoon.beta.com) Message-Id: <199712230451.XAA04403@spoon.beta.com> To: questions@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Moving CD audio data around with HP 4020i Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 23:51:16 -0500 From: "Brian J. McGovern" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I apologize for the cross post. However, although this is a -question per se, I think its going to need a -hacker's opinion. I've been trying now for several days (and twice as many blanks) to be able to copy an audio CD that I originally put together under windows. The closest I've managed to get was static on the CD. A search of the mail archives yielded little on the topic, except for a plea many months ago before I gave up once on this endeavor. I hope to solve it this time around. I have an HP 4020i that I've been using to burn strictly data CDs. So far, its been working fine. What I'd like to do now is put together some strictly audio, and some mixed-mode CDs. Unfortunately, the documentation gets sparse. What I tried to do was to use cd-write (1.4) to extract the data from the CD. Usually, it fails during the end of a data disk with a read error. It seems to be able to do audio tracks... but I'm not sure, as I've never rewritten one successfully. I've also tried cdrecord. For some reason, it doesn't like my drive. I haven't tried wasting blanks on making it work. The CD tracks I'd like to use come from two sources. The first is an audio CD that I made under win 3.1 with the software that came with the CD drive. I basically played several of my MIDI files, and captured them back to WAV, then used the software to move the WAV files in to a CD format, and burn them. I then used a second CD to store all the original MID files, using a ISO 9660 format, a la mkisofs. 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? Thanks. -Brian