[X4U] importing audio CD as AIFF

[Ean Kingston]

On April 28, 2005 03:17 pm, Alex wrote:
> On Apr 28, 2005, at 14:29, Ean Kingston wrote:
> > The raw audio on a CD is 16bit 4.1khz headerless PCM file.
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_CD.
>
> You mean 44.1.
Yes, sorry.

> And you don't mean "file".
okay but I don't know what else to cal it.

> And I, for one, don't quite  
> agree with the Wikipedia when it says there are "tracks". Strictly
> speaking, there's only one track on an audio CD.
Okay but what do we call them then?

The rest was a rant on my part so I won't argue.
>
> > As far as there being a problem getting the exact data off an audio
> > CD, that
> > is not a problem on any system that lets you at the raw device
>
> Oh, but there is. Because of (a) the audio CD format specs, and (b) the
> raw device being the firmware in the CD drive. And thereby hangs a
> tale...
>
> > (AFAIK only the free OSes do this)
>
> No, but it could be more difficult on a proprietary OS, for obvious
> reasons. However, the pre-eminent proprietary OS has such a tool --
> André Wiethoff's superb ExactAudioCopy. On the "Classic" Mac OS there
> was Astarte CD-Copy (rip <sigh>).
>
> > I rip my audio CDs by putting them in a PC running
> > FreeBSD and extracting the raw audio
>
> You can do the same thing on Mac OS X, naturally. Look into cdrdao and
> cdparanoia.

Good. I was not aware. Of course I haven't had my Mac all that long either.

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