[Flac-dev] Support .cda as input files

Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves
Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:58:46 -0000

On 9/13/07, Daniel Aleksandersen <aleksandersen+xiphlists@runbox.com>
wrote:
> I know that. However when you put an audio CD in a computer you will see
> them as files with the .cda extension. Supporting this 'format'
would make
> encoding simpler as users would not need to 'rip' to a format, but
could
> drag and drop the files from the CD to the computer.

You still do not understand.  The only way for something like that to
work would be for FLAC to rip the audio data from the CD, which is not
something the FLAC encoder does, nor I believe Josh is planning to
change it to perform such task.

Xiph provides you with cdparanoia to rip Audio CDs.  There are other
rippers around, too.  Most can be configured to encode directly the
extracted data as FLAC.

-Ivo