CD music file formats

[Bob Hartung]

Hi all,
  I am a newbie to this so here goes.  I want to rip some very old CDs 
and then rerecord the songs onto CDs that will play in an "ancient" cd 
player.  This player is able to play the original CDs, I just want to 
cut out the crap that I always have to skip over.  So far I see lots of 
references to MP3 encoding using Grip and Lame.  Also references to Ogg 
Orbis (sp?) and WAV formats.  However, I see no references to the 
original CD format.  Do I just rip them to a "raw" file format , collect 
the raw files into an iso and then burn the iso to CD with cdrecord  
dev=0,0,0 [filename}?

  Help, directions all appreciated.

TIA

Bob Hartung