On Wednesday 01 February 2006 11:05 am, H.S. wrote: > Hi, > > I have been trying to get tracks information (same as CD text?) in > backup copies of my audio CDs but haven't been successful. > > What I do is: > 1. Copy the audio CD wav files using grip. This uses cdda2wav to rip the > files with this command: > $> usr/bin/cdda2wav -D ATAPI:%c -x -t %t -L 0 -vall -O wav %w > where %c is /dev/cdrom. > > 2. This gives me .wav and .inf files. Now, I guess grip or cdda2wav > makes an appropriate entry in ~/.cddb directory for the CD using it's CD > ID tag. > > 3. In the .inf files that I get, I mostly do not get the track info from > the original CD. So I edit each .info file put in the title and performer. > > 4. After this, if I burn tracks to a blank cd using cdrecord, I still do > not get the track information on the new CD: > cdrecord -v blank=fast dev=/dev/hdd -eject -pad -dao -audio -useinfo *.wav > > > So, [rip audio disk and edit .inf files]->[burn wav tracks to blank cd > using -useinfo]-> problem getting cd track info. > > What I am doing wrong? It appears that "-useinfo" only checks > freedb.freedb.org and if it doesn't find the CD online, it doesn't write > any track info at all. If this is the way it is, how I force it to look > at my ~/.cddb to get the track info, or how do I force it to look for > the track info in the .inf files corresponding to each .wav file? >
read the cdrecord man page... I think you need the -text flag or textfile= to read either an ascii or binary cd-text info. Joe Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
