Re: cd ripping (was Re: inferno (was Re: [9fans] fortune-worthy))

[Christopher Nielsen <cnielsen@pobox.com>]

a way to generate a single image and cuesheet for a whole cd
that, when used as the image for burning a cd, will produce an
exact copy (or as close as possible) of the original cd.

iirc (which i may not since it's been several months), cdfs
assumes the tracks of the cd have a two-second pre-track gap
that is not true of most live or mix cds. i know for certain
that it writes in track-at-once mode, which introduces the
two-second pre-track gap. the only way around that is to write
in dao (disc-at-once) mode.

i started modifying cdfs to handle this and also to write in
dao (disc-at-once) mode. i got pretty far before i realised i
needed to let the design percolate more before continuing. my
initial idea for handling cuesheets was to make it a directory
hierarchy; to create a cue sheet for a cd to burn, you would
just create directories and files that would correspond to the
cuesheet field names and place the desired values in a text file.
without actually implementing it, i don't know if it would prove
to be too clunky, though.

the idea is to produce a suite of cd mastering tools for music
production. i think it would be much more powerful and simpler
than what's available for windows and macos.

On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 08:43:32PM -0500, David Presotto wrote:
> Just curious, what do you looking for that cdfs + cp doesn't
> give you?

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Christopher Nielsen
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