Add audio burning and ripping hints to cdrtools post.

[blog.git] / posts / cdrtools.mdwn

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@@ -18,6 +18,15 @@ You can mount an ISO using the `loop` option
 
     $ sudo mount -o loop image.iso /mnt/image
 
+To burn an audio CD (for old-school players that don't understand
+filesystems), try something like:
+
+    $ cdrecord -v speed=1 dev=/dev/cdrom -eject -dao -audio -pad *.wav
+
+To rip audio CDs, I usually use [abcde][].
+
+    $ abcde -o flac
+
 If you don't like cdrtools, there is also the fork [cdrkit][] which
 dates back to a 2006 license dispute between cdrtools author Jörg
 Schilling and the folks at Debian.
@@ -26,6 +35,7 @@ Schilling and the folks at Debian.
 [Gentoo tutorial]: http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_ATAPI_CD_Burning
 [ISO-9660]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9660
 [Wikipedia]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9660#File_and_directory_name_restrictions
+[abcde]: http://code.google.com/p/abcde/
 [cdrkit]: http://www.cdrkit.org/
 
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