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Date:      Wed, 17 Jan 2001 18:48:34 -0500
From:      Bob Johnson <bob@eng.ufl.edu>
To:        r.j.steehouder@student.utwente.nl
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org, dhagan@colltech.com
Subject:   Re: [FBSD-Q] Re: Burning Audio CD's w/ IDE CD-RW drive
Message-ID:  <3A662F52.C7BF4D86@eng.ufl.edu>
References:  <3A663584.3774.1F13B73@localhost>

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Rogier Steehouder wrote:
> 
> > > 1) Extract an audio track from a cd to a file
> > >
> > There are a few programs in the ports that claim to do this.  I use
> > dagrab, e.g.
> >
> > $ mkdir musictracks
> > $ cd musictracks
> > $ dagrab -d /dev/acd1c
> >
> > will leave a file for each track (trackXX.wav) on the cd.
> 
> > > 2) Burn that track onto a cd-r (burncd -f /dev/acd1c audio filename
> > > fixate?)
> >
> > That's right.  burncd will accept wildcards, so all of the files
> > generated by dagrab can be burned with something like:
> >
> > $ burncd -f /dev/acd1c -e -s4 audio track*.wav fixate
> 
> Have you tried this? Does burncd convert .wav to CD audio format?
> I suspect the result of the procedure above will sound like random noise.

It works fine.  I've done it several times.

> According to the man page, burncd needs raw audio tracks. If anyone knows a
> grabber that reads and writes CD audio format, I'd like to know. (cdda2wav
> says it can, but my test failed miserably. Could have been my fault, though.)
> 

I didn't interpret the man page that way, so I tried it to  
see what happened.  It worked.  I guess sometimes the 
bumblebee approach is the way to go.

> With kind regards, Rogier Steehouder
> 

- Bob


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