Re: trying to copy audio files from a CD without a file system ...

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 02:11:48PM +0000, Albretch Mueller wrote:
>  I have an audio CD which Linux/Debian/knoppix shows me in a browser window as:
> ~
> cdda://sr0/Track 33.wav
> ...
> cdda://sr0/Track 1.wav
> ~
>  when I try to copy the audio file to my local drive I get
> ~
> $ mplayer -fs "cdda://sr0/Track 1.wav" -ao
> pcm:file="/media/sdb1/audo/Track 1.wav"
> MPlayer svn r34540 (Debian), built with gcc-4.7 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
> mplayer: could not connect to socket
> mplayer: No such file or directory
> Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
> 
> Playing cdda://sr0/Track 1.wav.
> The start option must be an integer: sr0
> Option hostname: Error while parsing m_span parameter start (sr0)
> Struct cdda, field hostname parsing error: sr0
> Can't open CDDA device.
> Failed to open cdda://sr0/Track 1.wav.
> 
> 
> Exiting... (End of file)
> $
> ~
>  How do you copy files from a CD with no apparent file system (so you
> can't mount it and browse to it)?

You use a CD "ripper" program such as cdparanoia. If you want to
encode to mp3 or ogg or such afterwards, you may be interested
in abcde, jack, ripit, ripperx, asunder... there are a bunch of
such programs available to more or less automate the process.

apt-cache search ripper

-dsr-