Re: k3b and create image

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On 06/30/2012 06:08 PM, JD wrote:
> On 06/30/2012 03:58 PM, Andy Blanchard wrote:
>> On 30 June 2012 22:49, JD <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jd1008@xxxxxxxxx>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>     I used k3b to copy the image of an audio cd.
>>     It produced files like
>>     Track01.wav
>>     ....
>>     Track16.wav
>>
>>
>> These are the audio tracks in .WAV format, which any media player
>> should be able to play.  Alternatively you could transcode them into
>> FLAC (lossless compression), OGG format (lossy compression), or some
>> other format to save some disk space.
>>
>>     and it also produced a file simply with the title of the audio cd,
>>     and without extensions and it is 803066400 bytes large.
>>     Running
>>     $ file 'Into The Unknown'
>>     Into The Unknown: data
>>
>>     The file is quite larger than the 704MB max (with overburn)
>>     that a CD can hold. This file is 100MB larger than that.
>>
>>
>> Larger than a data CD, not than an audio CD.  Audio CDs are stored in
>> sectors of 2,352 bytes, where as data CDs put 2,048 bytes plus some
>> checksum data into the same sector space.  K3B has generated a raw
>> dump of the CD including the checksum data, rather than stripping it out.
>>
>>     So, how can I use this file? I was hoping it would be in
>>     a format that could be used by any of the plethora of
>>     media players in linux.
>>     mplayer failed to open it.
>>
>>
>> I'd say your best path would be to delete it, and then transcode the
>> .WAV files into your audio format of choice.
>>
>> -- 
>> Andy
>>
>> /The only person to have all his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe/
>>
>>
> Thanx Andy.
> I do know what wav files are.
> I was hoping to delete them and use just the one
> file which krb says is the image. I was under the
> impression it would produce a .img file. But I was
> disappointed. Apparently becase an audio CD is
> made of multiple tracks, once cannot create a .img
> or a .iso of it.
> 


Try this dd if=/dev/sr0 of=cdimage.iso

-- 
-- Steve


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