1Cdda2wav User guide 2=================== 3 4NOTE: expressions in angle braces have to be substituted with 5 the corresponding numerical values. 6 For example: <delay in seconds> has to be substituted 7 with the numerical value to be used. 8 9Common tasks 10============ 11NOTE: The examples used here depend on proper default settings for interface 12method and devices as specified in the Makefile. They can be overriden with 13command line parameters, but here I choose to focus on simple examples. 14 15Copy complete audio CDs 16 171. Copy an audio CD into wav files one per track. 18 19 cdda2wav -B 20 21 will produce the sample wav files (one per track) 22 audio_01.wav 23 audio_02.wav 24 ... 25 26 and the corresponding description files 27 audio_01.inf 28 audio_02.inf 29 ... 30 312. Same as above but include MD-5 type signatures 32 33 cdda2wav -B -M<length> 34 35 363. Same as above but use other file name ('party_cd.wav') 37 38 cdda2wav -B -M<length> party_cd.wav 39 40 41Copy single tracks 42 431. Copy one track (eg track 6) into a wav file. 44 45 cdda2wav -t6 46 47 will produce a wav file including track 6 48 49 audio.wav 50 51 and 52 53 audio.inf 54 55 56Copy parts of tracks 57 581. Copy from given start time to end of track 59 60 cdda2wav -t6 -o<delay in 1/75 seconds> 61 62 will record track 6 starting at track time <delay>/75 seconds 63 from track beginning upto the end of track. 64 652. Copy from given start time and record for a given time 66 67 cdda2wav -t6 -o<delay in 1/75 seconds> -d<time to record in seconds> 68 69 will record track 6 starting at track time <delay>/75 seconds 70 from track beginning for <time to record in seconds> seconds. 71 72 73 74Copy tracks into a pipe 75 76 cdda2wav -t6 -Oraw - | audio_compressor 77 78 will feed the audio samples (in big endian format) of track 6 79 into a secondary program audio_compressor. 80(See also script cdda2mp3(.new) for a suggestion, how to process all tracks of 81an audio cd with a MPEG-Layer3 encoder (not included here).) 82 83 84Miscellaneous 85 861. Use cdda2wav as a cd player 87 88 cdda2wav -eN -t6 89 90 will copy the audio samples into a sound card (if sound card support 91 is compiled in) and will not write any file. 92 93 94 952. Get complete information on the cd 96 97 cdda2wav -v63 -Nd0.01 98 99 will try to find out a media catalog number and track related 100 information (ISRCs) in addition to indices. For CD-Extra discs 101 limited support exists to retrieve additional information. 102