From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri Sep 28 19:49: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4733237B406 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 19:48:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (root@spare0.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.114]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA26447; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 12:18:37 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010928114920.T593-100000@we-66-27-250-19.we.mediaone.net> Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 12:18:31 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Joey Garcia Subject: Re: can't rip CD's Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 28-Sep-2001 Joey Garcia wrote: > I was curious to how you came to the blocksize of being 2352 bytes? I > this documented somewhere? Is that just how the data is layed out on the > cd or something? In blocks of 2352 bytes? 2352 bytes is the number of bytes per sector of an audio CD. 2048 is the number of bytes per sector of a data CD (extra error checking) > Now since we're on the subject of cd's and blocksizes. What if I wanted > to create a cd image to the hard drive using dd, would I use the same > blocksize? Would this command be correct: dd if=/dev/acd0c bs=2352 > of=/home/myhome/image.iso ? I ask that question, because I was curious on > how to create an image of an audio cd so that I can make duplicates later > on. No, if it where a data data use a 2k block size. > I'm gonna have to give your above command a try to see if it works for me > on my FreeBSD 4.4 system. Oh yeah, how's the quality of the sound when > ripping cd's that way? Depends entirely on your CDROM drive :) There is no jitter protection etc.. Someone just informed me you can use cdda2wav in 'cooked ioctl' mode but I haven't tried it. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message