[Flac] Archiving CDs w/ Flac on Unix (and subsequent re-encoding)

[Brian Willoughby]

On a related note, are there any tools which can read the Index information  
from a CD and preserve these in some file for later recreation?

The actual TOC on a CD has very little information: just the Absolute Start  
Time of each Track.  Is there any documentation of the "TOC" file format that  
is commonly used?  I do not recall coming across anything.  Obviously, I am  
also interested in similar documentation for the CUE file format.

I am (slowly) working on disk burning software that supports FLAC directly,  
without requiring the time or disk space needed for uncompressing the audio  
before burning.  Uncompression should be possible on-the-fly.  I am mostly  
working with original material which sometimes has index markers, but I would  
also like to find software which can read index markers from existing CDs so  
that this can be preserved when creating a backup/copy.

Brian Willoughby
Sound Consulting


Begin forwarded message:

On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Eric Sandeen wrote:

> cuetools looks good, too.... guessing toc parsing might not be so bad to
> implement either, though.

TOC has certain advantages:

    1. You can use it along with the CDRDAO dump to re-create the
    original CD.

    2. It has more information than CUE format.

cjs
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