(question) Copying audio CD by command line?

[Kareem Shehata]

On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 01:27 -0400, William Park wrote:
> I would like to duplicate (aka. clone) an audio CD.  How do I do this
> using command line?
> 
> My guess is that the solution is some permutation of 'cdrecord',
> 'readcd', 'cdrdao', and 'cdparanoia'.  From what I've read so far, I
> would extract track by track, and then write them to a new CD.  But, I
> want to copy all info from the original CD, not just audio.
> 
> Any pointers would be appreciated.


The tool for that is definitely cdrdao.  IIRC, just doing "cdrdao copy"
should do the trick.  If you want to keep an image of the CD, then use:

$ cdrdao read-cd --datafile cd_name.bin cd_name.toc

and then write the cd with:
$ cdrdao write-cd --datafile cd_name.bin cd_name.toc

-kms


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