[ILUG] Audio CD to ISO

[Liam Bedford]

On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 21:31 +0000, Dale Dunlea wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I reckon I'm missing something very simple here. I'm trying to make
> multiple copies of an audio CD, so I thought, fine, make an ISO fro mthe
> audio CD and run cdrecord many, many, many times. Thing is, I've only
> ever done data with mkisofs before. I figured that seeing as how the CD
> is a CD image, then running dd on the thing should extract it for me.
> Nope, read error. 
> 
> I tried cdrdao which gives me .toc and .bin files. I've never come
> across them before. Is there any nice easy way to convert them to iso?
> To get as many copies out as quickly as possible, I was planning to use
> roxio on my windows pc with the .iso while running my linux box in
> parallel.
> 
> Am I missing something realy obvious? I suspect I am, but I really can't
> puzzle out what.
> 
You need to rip the contents of the CD to wav files. You can't dd them,
because the data on an audio cd uses 2.3K blocks instead of 2K blocks.
Or maybe you could if the driver was clever enough, but it doesn't work
that way.

Then you need to put them back together again. cdrecord will do this, or
any decent gui thing will do it. Your biggest issue is to record the
disc in DAO mode. That way it will write the whole disk, and you should
be able to set the gaps between tracks. If you write in TAO mode, it'll
write track by track, with a gap between them.

If you have acccess to windows, I love nero. On linux, K3B is as close
as it gets.

L.