On 08/18/2013 04:13 PM Joerg Schilling wrote:
> ken <gebser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for your reply. As late as November 2012 I always used the CLI
>> for copying *data* CDs, using cdrecord and readcd. But though I read
>> and studied manpages and scads of documentation, I never had any luck
>> cloning a music CD using these commands. So I'd doubt I could figure
>> out on my own, in addition to cloning a CD, adding in the song titles etc.
>
> Are you using recent original software or are you using an outdated, dead
> and defective fork that is distributed by some non-OpenSource oriented
> Linux sources?
>
> If you are using this bad fork that is from September 2004 - 9 years ago, you
> suffer from many problems, like incomplete documentation and many bugs that
> cannot be found in the original software.
cdrecord and readcd are both part of this package:
$ rpm -qi cdrecord
Name : cdrecord Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 2.01 Vendor: CentOS
Release : 10.7.el5 Build Date: Thu 26 Feb 2009
06:30:50 PM EST
Install Date: Mon 05 Sep 2011 03:03:56 PM EDT Build Host:
chamkaur.karan.org
Group : Applications/Archiving Source RPM:
cdrtools-2.01-10.7.el5.src.rpm
Size : 1383954 License: GPL
Signature : DSA/SHA1, Sun 08 Mar 2009 09:45:19 PM EDT, Key ID
a8a447dce8562897
Packager : Karanbir Singh <kbsingh@xxxxxxxxx>
URL : http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/cdrecord.html
Summary : A command line CD/DVD recording program.
Description :
....
The "Description" states nothing about it being from a bad fork from
2004. :) So how would anyone know?
>
>> I guess I wasn't clear about ripping a CD. Grip, as I said handles this
>> fine, including downloading the cddb data. So if I wanted to create wav
>> (or ogg or other) files, I could use grip. But for some CDs, a series
>> of wav files just doesn't play back well; I'm talking about music in
>> which one track blends into the following track with no break in
>> between. These don't play back well because audio players insert a
>> break (perhaps because they need a second or so to load that second
>> track) and, in addition, often this break isn't in a good moment. So
>> I've decided to just burn the entire CD to avoid hearing the breaks. So
>> is it even possible to save the cddb data to a copied CD?
>
> Programs like grip and cdparanoia don't care about the usability of the
> extracted files for later burning tasks and they are not able to extract so
> called "un-CDs".
>
> cdda2wav knows about the writing process, feteches cddb data and includes a
> bug-fixed libparanoia.
>
> Recent man pages also contain several related examples. Did you read a recent
> manpage and follow the EXAMPLE section?
I don't know what is meant here by "recent". Which is the earliest
version which contains the functionality required?
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