CD music file formats - YEA! Solution!

[Bob Hartung]

Clint and Gene
  Perfect!  Now I know what the native format is and how to go about 
it.  The .wav suffix was confusing me.  Guess my original post was not 
as well worded as I thought. 

Thanks to all,

Bob

Clint Harshaw wrote:

> 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
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