On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 01:12:38AM -0500, Anthony Perez-Miller wrote: > 1) Is there a linux utility that can deal with such? I've never had one of these crippled CDs to play around with, but I'd try somethings before resorting to using WINE to play the WMA files. 1) Try ripping it with cdparanoia anyhow. You might have to mess around with the options some. 2) If that doesn't work, I'd next try readcd to directly pull information off the disc. IIRC, CDs with both data and audio, are just multisession discs. The first session contains the audio, since CD players will only read the first session. The second session contains the data track. When stuck in a computer, the computer is smart enough to see the data. This is the CD-EXTRA technique. What you want to do, is only get to the first session - the one with the audio data. Now, because of the copy protection on the audio data, I'm not sure this will help you at all - the audio may be too corrupted to extract at all. cdrdao's "read-toc" function should be able to read the TOC from the disc. You'll need to specify the --session option to choose the correct session manually. >From here, you'll be able to do one of two things: either try to use cdrdao's "read-cd" option, which will rip a burnable image of the data along with the toc info, or, get the sectors that contain the audio information. If cdrdao read-cd is unable to extract the right stuff, you could go back to read-cd and specifically tell it what sectors to read. This will get you raw CDDA information, which you can convert to WAV with sox. If cdrdao read-cd does work, you'll have a burnable image and can burn out a regular, plane-jane redbook audio disc. Sounds like it'll be a fun project. Maybe I'll go pick up the disc just to see if I can hack around the protection ::-) On a related note, has anyone tried this? -- Ross Vandegrift ross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx A Pope has a Water Cannon. It is a Water Cannon. He fires Holy-Water from it. It is a Holy-Water Cannon. He Blesses it. It is a Holy Holy-Water Cannon. He Blesses the Hell out of it. It is a Wholly Holy Holy-Water Cannon. He has it pierced. It is a Holey Wholly Holy Holy-Water Cannon. He makes it official. It is a Canon Holey Wholly Holy Holy-Water Cannon. Batman and Robin arrive. He shoots them.
