CDDAREAD(1) CDDAREAD(1) NAME cddaread - utility to read audio track(s) from CD into digital audio file. SYNOPSIS cddaread [ options ] [ targetfile ] DESCRIPTION cddaread is used to read individual audio tracks from Audio CD or the entire Audio CD. Digital audio is saved in one of the following digital audio formats (AIFF-C being the default): AIFF, AIFF-C, NeXT/Sun, MPEG-1 audio layer I, or MPEG-1 audio layer II. Audio is saved at 44.1kHz (16bit stereo). Program also supports playback of the audio during the process. NOTE! MPEG-1 audio layer I&II and NeXT/Sun file formats are only available with version 2 or above of libau- diofile.so (Irix 6.2 or later at least have this, but Irix 5.x don't). OPTIONS Options are the traditional POSIX one letter options. POSIX style options start with a single ``-''. Options offered by cddaread are the following: -a, --all Read all audio tracks into same target file. -A, --ALL Read all audio tracks into separate files (track number will be appended into given target name). -d, --device= Selects the scsi device to use. Device must be a cd- rom drive that supports audio xfers. (for example in Indigo2 this usually is /dev/scsi/sc0d3l0). By default program automagically uses the first cd-rom found, so this option is usually required only when you have several cd-rom drives. -h, --help Displays short usage information and exits. -i, --info Display only the disc info (information about audio tracks on disc) and exit (it's not necessary to specify targetfile when using this or --no-of-tracks option). 05 Jan 1998 1 CDDAREAD(1) CDDAREAD(1) -q, --quiet Quiet mode (display only errors). -s, --sound Enable audio. This will enable the audio playback (if the system supports it) during the reads. -t[,,...], --track=[,,...] Read the specified track. By default the program will read frist audio track found on the disc. To read multiple tracks you can give comma separated list of track numbers to this option or use this option multiple times on command line (to read all tracks from CD it might be easier to use --ALL option instead). This option has no meaning if used with --all or --ALL option. -v, --verbose Enables verbose mode (positively chatty). --no-of-tracks Display only no. of track on the disc and exit. --version Display program version and exit. --aiff Changes the target file format to AIFF. By default program saves the audio in AIFF-C format. --aiff-c Changes the target file format to AIFF-C, the extended AIFF-C standard format. This is the default format for output files. --mpeg-1 Changes the target file format to ISO/MPEG-1 audio layer I, joint-stereo, fixed rate at 192Kbps/channel (.mp1). --mpeg-2 Changes the target file format to ISO/MPEG-1 audio layer II, joint-stereo, fixed rate at 128Kbps/channel (.mp2). --next Changes the target file format to NeXT (.snd) / Sun (.au). 05 Jan 1998 2 CDDAREAD(1) CDDAREAD(1) BUGS When using the -s option, audio playback may have some clitches, but this doesn't affect the audio being saved to disk. SEE ALSO cdman(1), playaifc(1), playaiff(1), aiffcompress(1) AUTHOR Timo Kokkonen (tjko@iki.fi) COPYING Copyright (C) 1996-1998 Timo Kokkonen This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. 05 Jan 1998 3