Thank you very much. I did get the Debian package for cdrdao and things seem to be working correctly. All I have left now is for my brain to catch up to the potential, here. Martin Andor Demarteau writes: >if you want to copy an entire audio-cd in the same order and lenght use: >cdparanoia "1-" data.wav >then use: >cdrdao read-toc cd.toc with the correct devices for both commands ofcourse >This will write a table-of-contents file for you which you can use with >cdrdao to write your disk-copy.