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Date:      Wed, 17 Jan 2001 09:39:04 -0500
From:      Bob Johnson <bob@eng.ufl.edu>
To:        dhagan@colltech.com
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Burning Audio CD's w/ IDE CD-RW drive
Message-ID:  <3A65AE88.FEED7EE2@eng.ufl.edu>

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> Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 17:10:39 -0500
> From: Daniel Hagan <dhagan@colltech.com>
> Subject: Burning Audio CD's w/ IDE CD-RW drive
> 
> I have a sony ide cd-rw drive that works fine w/ CD-R data tracks (I've
> burned and read several now).  But, I need to find out how to:
> 
> 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
 
> 
> or something that will accomplish both (i.e. copy a track directly from
> a cd onto a cd-r).  I've searched the freebsd site and didn't find
> anything useful, so I figured I'd write to the list.  I've tried
> accessing /dev/acd0c just about every way I can think of to copy data
> off an audio cd, but I just get Bad Address back each time (dd, cat,
> strings, cp, ...)

Reading an audio CD is a mysterious process that seems to involve 
a lot of trial and error to get the timing right, so it is slow.  
It seems that trying to copy directly from a CD to a CD-R would 
present some timing problems. In any case, to read an audio CD 
you have to use software that knows how to make sense of an 
audio CD.
  
> 
> PLEASE COPY ME on any mails.  I don't have time to read -questions
> anymore, and don't follow the list.  If you'll be kind enough to cc: me
> on any replies, I'll write a patch for the burncd manpage (which I
> didn't think was totally clear) and the handbook outlining what I learn.

Adding a "See also: dagrab dd mkisofs" section to the burncd page 
would probably be useful - that would point you to all of the 
basic tools you need to copy or build music or data CDs.  
As for clarifying the rest, I vote for a tutorial on the 
difference between mode 1, mode 2, and XAmode1 tracks.  It's a 
little difficult to figure out which options to use when you 
don't understand what they do ;)  Then again, since dagrab 
isn't part of the base system it may be bad form to reference it 
in the man page for something that is in the base system.
 

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Daniel Hagan
> 

- Bob


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