CD music file formats
John Thompson
john at os2.dhs.org
Sat Jun 26 23:50:40 UTC 2004
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 19:45:15 -0500
Bob Hartung <rwhart at mchsi.com> wrote:
> 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.
I've found that some older CD players will not recognize dye-based CDs
at all; only original pressed CDs will work. Test your player before
you invest too much time in this project.
> 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}?
I usually use "cdparanoia -B" to rip the audio from a CD into .wav files
that can be burned using cdrecord.
--
-John (john at os2.dhs.org)
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