CD music file formats

[Clint Harshaw]

Bob Hartung wrote:
> 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

Hi Bob, and welcome to Fedora!  Here is a set of instructions that will 
rip your original CD into .wav format using Grip:

1. insert your music CD. If your CD player starts playing the CD, then 
stop it.
2. Click on Redhat -> Sound & Video -> More Sound & Video Applcations -> 
Grip. In a few seconds you should notice the tracks by name on the 
Grip's GUI.
3. Now let's set Grip up so that it will rip your CD. Click on Rip -> 
Rip Only.
4. Assuming Grip is now ripping your CD, go get a refreshing beverage. 
When it's done, you'll have to poke around to see where Grip stored your 
.wav files. Mine, for instance, stores them in a directory named 
~/ogg/artistname/cdname (as a generic example).

For burning a CD that will play in about any player, I'd recommend your 
looking into K3B. It's pretty straightforward: point and click, and 
it'll burn the mixed CD that you want. If you are using Fedora Core 2, 
you'll find K3B already installed. However, if you are using Fedora Core 
1, then you can easily install it with the following command from a root 
prompt: yum install k3b.

Now there is one item related to my experience with CD-R's: I've had 
some 700MB CD-R's that wouldn't play in older players, while 650MB 
CD-R's play just fine. That may or may not be your experience, but if 
you should bump into that problem, try burning to a 650MB CD-R.

Hope this helps, have fun! Let us know how it goes.
Clint