I realize this was an answer to someone else, but...<br><br>I use Trader's Little Helper for all my encoding/decoding projects (for FLAC mostly). does this automatically do more than just the tracks? If not, how can I get the rest?
<br><br>- - Audio data prior to the start of track 1 (and possibly after the end<br>of the 'last' track, depending on the disc layout)<br><br>- - Sub-code index information<br><br>- - CD-Text data<br><br>- - Any non-audio data present on the disc (ie: data files)
<br><br>- - Disc "Meta-data", such as ISRC and catalog numbers<br><br><br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/21/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Charles Steinkuehler</b> <<a href="mailto:cstein@newtek.com">
cstein@newtek.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>
Peter Edwards wrote:<br>> Hi,<br>><br>> Bit late to join in the discussion but I've just read through the CD<br>> archiving discussion and was particular interested in Dax's method,<br>> described here (also included below):
<br>><br>> <a href="http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/flac/2006-September/000611.html">http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/flac/2006-September/000611.html</a><br>><br>> So far I've just been flac-ing my CDs to individual one-flac-per-track
<br>> files, however it appears I've been missing some of the other bits of<br>> info on the CD.<br>><br>> I haven't been using abcde (i've been using KAudioCreator which is a<br>> front-end for cdparanoia, AIUI) so I've been a bit lost by some of the
<br>> detailed methods described by others, as well as Dax.<br>><br>> Given that I've already flac-ed a good many CDs, is it enough to go<br>> back and run a batch file like this on each CD:<br>><br>> cd-discid /dev/hdc >
discid.txt<br>> cdrdao read-toc --device /dev/hdc toc.txt<br>><br>> and save those txt files with the flac albums. Would that be enough<br>> to be able to re-generate the CD again later with the same cddbid<br>
> etc.? i.e. would that extract all info I might conceivably require<br>> again later?<br><br>The cddbid relies only on information contained in the CD table of<br>contents, so as long as you're ripping a cue file (or similar) you
<br>should be able to create a CD with an identical id.<br><br>To make sure you're actually making a faithful duplicate of the original<br>disc, other data you may want to extract and archive include:<br><br>- - Audio data prior to the start of track 1 (and possibly after the end
<br>of the 'last' track, depending on the disc layout)<br><br>- - Sub-code index information<br><br>- - CD-Text data<br><br>- - Any non-audio data present on the disc (ie: data files)<br><br>- - Disc "Meta-data", such as ISRC and catalog numbers
<br><br>Extracting a toc file with cdrdao will get you sub-code info, cd-text,<br>and the "meta-data". You can rip any (pre|post)-gap audio with<br>cdparanoia with an appropriate range specifier, although since this is
<br>normally silence, not having it ripped isn't typically a big deal. Any<br>data files you want to archive can simply be copied after mounting the disc.<br><br>I'd also check over the ripping script, and make sure the individual
<br>flac tracks you've ripped can be glued together 'seamlessly', resulting<br>in audio data appropriate to re-create the original disc.<br><br>I personally use abcde as a front-end to cdrdao and cdparanoia to rip a
<br>single flac file (with embedded cue sheet) and a toc file (with the<br>cd-text and index information), should I need to re-create a CD that<br>somehow got damaged. I've tested the creation of images that would<br>
match the disc I started with, except I haven't been able to get cdrdao<br>to account for the write offset of my Plextor CD/DVD burner, so the<br>audio data comes out shifted by 30 samples (the write offset of my<br>burner). Not the end of the world, and I can "pre-shift" the audio data
<br>to fix it.<br><br>- --<br>Charles Steinkuehler<br><a href="mailto:cstein@newtek.com">cstein@newtek.com</a><br>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (MingW32)<br><br>iD8DBQFFtA9Genk4xp+mH40RAvhOAJ9N296H1Ig8wvteJ3OAuxbz+I4TDACguBzR
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