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

[Eric Sandeen]

Curt Sampson wrote:

>>As far as I can tell, they do, although not sure how to check that
>>exactly...
> 
> 
> Just listen, and watch the counter on the CD-player. It may help to
> count beats and bars, otherwise you can just look for a significant
> audio event very near the change-over point (to negative time or at
> 0:00). I suspect it would be, with any significant lead-ins, a good two
> or three seconds out if it was wrong, so it ought not be too hard to
> check.

yep, it's fine.  On the CD I mentioned earlier in the thread, I 
specifically checked the transition between tracks 3 and 4, there are 
some guitar-tuning noises and some crowd interaction; it's in exactly 
the same place.  Of course you'd have to take care to splice the tracks 
back together carefully (i.e. don't blindly concatenate wav files) but 
doing it properly is trivially scripted.


>>regarding cd-text, none of my cds had it in the first place, so I can't
>>say for sure.  :)
> 
> 
> Hmm. That would be my bigger worry. I wonder if you just read the TOC
> with cdrdao if you even get CD-Text in the generated TOC file, since
> that information is actually in the subcode.

I guess I'll worry about it when I get a cd that has the feature...  But 
why would flac-per-cd vs. flac-per-track affect this; it's all in the 
way cdrdao reads the toc file, right?

> It would also be interesting to look at copy-protected CDs where the
> subcode timing/track information is different from the TOC.

Again, if I ever come across one...

-Eric