Sunday, March 2, 2003

Cool CD Copying -- 10:18 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

I've found that a couple of my CDs are starting to act flaky, so I thought I'd try to make a backup copy on my PC and see if that would work. Thankfully, they copied very well so the backups play just fine. I got this nifty little Linux tool called cdrdao that allowed me to make a disc-at-once copy with very little fuss. All it took were these two commands:

cdrdao read-cd --device 0,2,0 mytoc
cdrdao write --device 0,2,0 mytoc

The --device argument points cdrdao to the SCSI address of your CD-RW drive. The first command rips the CD with a description file called mytoc. The second command writes it to a CD-R(W). Rather slick. The other programs I used wanted to rip each individual track then write them back. This does the whole disc. It's very handy since the discs in question are pretty old and not readily available anymore.

J.t.Qbe comments: For today's teenagers, a "record" has always been a CD. Sad, isn't it?

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