hand-crafting TOC files

[Kenneth Dombrowski <kenneth@ylayali.net>]

Hi,

I am trying to create a CD which, when played with software on my
computer (or on CD_TEXT-aware standalone players), will contain relevant
track info for display.  

So far I have wasted several hours on this, and I'm not even sure I'm
not operating under a false assumption: is this something software
players in debian support?  (I don't actually have a standalone CD
player, or a CD that I know of which includes CD_TEXT data) 
I have been trying my results with half a dozen cd players from the
sarge archive (I think by now I've installed all but the KDE ones)

The content is a series of live shows in .wav format, so there is no
option to extract the data from an existing CD, nor are there valid
DISC_ID, etc numbers

Working from a few examples I have found online (mostly [1]) and the
cdrdao man page, I have tried several variations on the following, in
this latest incantation I have added fake DISC_ID & ISRC numbers, using
fake values:


        CD_DA
        CD_TEXT {
                LANGUAGE_MAP {
                        0 : 9
                }
                LANGUAGE 0 {
                        TITLE "$ALBUM_TITLE"
                        PERFORMER "$BAND_NAME"
                        MESSAGE "$COMMENT"
                        DISC_ID "XY12345"
                        UPC_EAN ""
                }
        }

        // --------------------------------------------------------------
        // TRACK LISTING
        // --------------------------------------------------------------
        // 2-sec lead in to 1st track.  No added silence for other tracks

        // Track 1
        TRACK AUDIO
        COPY
        NO PRE_EMPHASIS
        TWO_CHANNEL_AUDIO
        CD_TEXT {
                LANGUAGE 0 {
                        TITLE "$SONG_TITLE_1"
                        PERFORMER "$BAND_NAME_1"
                        MESSAGE "$COMMENT_1"
                        ISRC "CC-OOO-YY-SSSSS"
                }
        }
        FILE "$FILE_1" 0
        // SILENCE must come after CD_TEXT
        SILENCE 00:02:00

        // Track 2
        TRACK AUDIO
        COPY
        NO PRE_EMPHASIS
        TWO_CHANNEL_AUDIO
        CD_TEXT {
                LANGUAGE 0 {
                        TITLE "$SONG_TITLE_2"
                        PERFORMER "$BAND_NAME_2"
                        MESSAGE "$COMMENT_2"
                        ISRC "CC-OOO-YY-SSSSS"
                }
        }
        FILE "$FILE_2" 0

etc...

The only thing I notice in the working example which I haven't tried is
the SIZE_INFO block, but this seems like a difficult thing to fake, &
anyway the man page says "The data will be automatically (re)created
when the CD-TEXT data is written."

I am getting the feeling I am going about this all wrong.  Are there any
tools to do this kind of thing?  Other methods to achieve the result?
Good docs I've missed?  

Thanks for your consideration,
Kenneth

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[1] http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/flac/2003-May/000196.html