Linux: Cloning audio CDs - the commandline way

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I found an excellent article about using "cdrdao" for extracting & cloning audio cds (by Martin Rasp), which also shows how to store a reproduceable image of an audio CD.

1) Find your CD burner device ID:

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cdrecord -scanbus

returns something like this:

scsibus5:
5,0,0 500) 'HL-DT-ST' 'DVDRAM GSA-4120B' 'A111' Removable CD-ROM
5,1,0 501) *
5,2,0 502) *
5,3,0 503) *
5,4,0 504) *
5,5,0 505) *
5,6,0 506) *
5,7,0 507) *

So in my case, "5,0,0" is the device id of my DVD burner.


2) Here are some tasks and their commands:

Extract CD and store as "data.bin" image:

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cdrdao read-cd --device 0,0,0 --driver generic-mmc audiocd.toc

This will give a nice .toc file if the CD had CD-TEXT info on it. If it didn't, you can
use freedb (aka cddb) for this:

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cdrdao read-cddb --device 0,0,0 --driver generic-mmc audiocd.toc 

Burn toc/bin image:

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cdrdao write --device 0,1,0 --speed 8 --driver generic-mmc:0x10 audiocd.toc

Note: The string ":0x10" is a driver option which, according to /usr/share/doc/cdrdao/README.gz, enables CD-TEXT writing:

0x00000010: Enable CD-TEXT writing.
This must be done explicitly because there is no way to detect if a recorder supports CD-TEXT writing. Trying to write CD-TEXT data with recorders that do not support this feature usually results in an error message at the beginning of the recording process and in real write mode the medium will be unusable.

on the fly copy:

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cdrdao copy \
	--source-device 0,0,0 --source-driver generic-mmc \
	--device 0,1,0 --driver generic-mmc \
	--on-the-fly \
	--with-cddb

Additional information:
- More infos about drive models and drivers can be found on the cdrdao homepage
- Howto: Duplicate Audio CDs using cdrdao (ubuntuforums)
- /usr/share/doc/cdrdao/README.gz (if you're on e.g. Debian, Ubuntu)