Hi, David Wright wrote: > $ od cd-track00-432975-2/track00.cdda.wav > /tmp/od > 0000000 044522 043106 027524 000001 040527 042526 066546 020164
Octal. Argh. gdb and man ascii to the rescue. R I F F T / \001 \000 W A V E f m t <blank> Looks like a .wav header: http://soundfile.sapp.org/doc/WaveFormat/ > 0000060 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 > * > 0210600 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000001 000000 > ... > 0227534 But the sound payload looks boring. > track length begin copy pre ch > =========================================================== > 1. 81225 [18:03.00] 33 [00:00.33] no no 2 It might be that cdparanoia copies track 0 if the first official track does not start at block 0. Here it starts a block 33. 33 blocks * 2352 bytes/block + 44 bytes .wav header = 77660 = 0227534 octal So this theory matches the size of your track 0 file. Have a nice day :) Thomas