--- "Paulo Jorge O. C. Matos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > What's the best way to copy an audio cd under Linux? > Is it possible with > cdrecord? what do I need? > > Best regards, > Under linux two programs are most widely used to do the actual recording : cdrecord for tao (track at once) and cdrdao for dao (disc at once) modes.
cdrecord will do normal data discs and audio CDs with 2 second gaps between tracks. If you want to burn CDs that require other gaps between tracks or some mixed mode CDs you'll often end up using cdrdao. I prefer to use cdrecord if I can, because I often have troubles with cdrdao burned CDs over 500MB size, but that might be my particular setup. Now these programs are just command line programs you give switches or point them to a TOC file. Because many people don't like such there are frontend programs that make burning CDs a lot user friendly. XCDroast seems to be quite popular for that, I myself like to use K3B(is kindof nero-ish). I wouldn't advise using Koncd, it's quite buggy imho. There'll probably be lots more frontends out there, just have a look on sourceforge. Also these programs are used with SCSI burners. If you have an ide burner your linux can run a SCSI emulation for your ide burner, but you have to tell it to. Depending on how you boot linux that is done in a different way. It would be a good thing to have a look in the linux burner howto. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html Hope that helps James Niland PS am still a noob myself, any corrections welcome __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
