similar to: [Flac-users] Re: CD archival best practices?

On Wed, 28 May 2003, Josh Coalson wrote: > interesting idea, CD-TEXT is in the subcode and if cdrdao can > split it out that's better I think than hacking the CUESHEET > block to store CD-TEXT. I suppose the ideal would be to have a metadata block to store the subcode from a CD, and something that could interpret it as CD-TEXT, if that's what it is. Then it would be possible to

I just uploaded a new FLAC FAQ: http://flac.sourceforge.net/faq.html Let me know if I forgot any common questions. Josh __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Eric Sandeen wrote: > Well given that I fed cdrdao the toc file that it originally extracted, > they should be, right? Do you mean check that the cue points fall at > the exact same spot in the performace, I guess? Yes. > As far as I can tell, they do, although not sure how to check that > exactly... Just listen, and watch the counter on the CD-player. It

Josh Coalson wrote: > --- Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> wrote: > >>1) how to generate a cue sheet to store in the flac file (on linux?) >> I've seen cddb2cue, is this a decent way? or cdrdao can generate >> a toc file, then convert that to a cue sheet.... > > > I think whatever provides cdrdao also provides toc2cue which > will convert.

On a related note, are there any tools which can read the Index information from a CD and preserve these in some file for later recreation? The actual TOC on a CD has very little information: just the Absolute Start Time of each Track. Is there any documentation of the "TOC" file format that is commonly used? I do not recall coming across anything. Obviously, I am also

This must be possible; not sure how to do it yet. :) After facing the thought of going through my cd collection for a 3rd time for re-encoding, it occurred to me that I should just flac the whole CD and add a cue sheet, and then back up to DVDs. That way -next- time I need to re-encode to any format, I can handle ~1/20th the discs, compared to my whole cd collection. :) Wondering if

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Eric Sandeen wrote: > Tested this on a live album (Johnny Cash Live at Folsom Prison) and > there is no lost audio; tracks segue seamlessly as on the original > disc. Did you check that a) the cue points are the same, and b) you're getting back CD-Text as well? > ...it occurred to me that I should just flac the > whole CD and add a cue sheet, and then

--- Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net> wrote: ... > Next, I rip the entire CD using cdrdao. This generates a .bin file > containing the raw audio data and a .toc file containing the table of > contents of the CD. There's still a problem here: I don't have the > subcode data (from channels R through W). There's a possiblity that > cdrdao will keep CD-Text data, since the

Hey FLAC gang - Just thought you'd like to know CD Baby has switched to FLAC for archiving the 40,000 CDs we have in stock. Luckily HD space is down below $1/gig so we got a 6-terabyte RAID-5 box set up for about $7000. Got the FreeBSD boxes churning away night and day, ripping and archiving. I'll do a more formal press release for ya in a couple months as we're further along, but

On Thu, 2003-12-25 at 21:35, Josh Coalson wrote: > --- jason <jason@doomba.com> wrote: > > is there a cuesheet syntax document someplace? > it's not really standardized that well. there are some links > here: http://flac.sourceforge.net/documentation.html (search > for --cuesheet) hmmmm.... i just reread the faq and your right... i'm kind of losing interest in

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The recent discussions about archiving CDs with flac prodded me to get abcde working again. I've filed a debian bug report with patches to the latest abcde that enable generating a toc file from the disc with cdrdao (rips CD-TEXT data and creates index points from subcode data). Combined with my patches to toc2cue, this is enough to rip even

Hi, Bit late to join in the discussion but I've just read through the CD archiving discussion and was particular interested in Dax's method, described here (also included below): http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/flac/2006-September/000611.html So far I've just been flac-ing my CDs to individual one-flac-per-track files, however it appears I've been missing some of the other bits

Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > Dan Phillips wrote: > >> With regards the toc problem not compensating for starting from track > >> 0, is it possible to use the cdrtoa -t or -T options to compensate for > >> the shift. I am not sure I fully understand the option, but I came > >> across it and thought I would mention it. > > I believe the -T and -t flags

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm trying to use flac to make backups of my CD collection, and am running into problems with disks that contain a pregap (or lead-in) before the start of track one. cdrdao rips these disks *WITHOUT* the pregap, and puts a PREGAP entry into the cue file. For my test CD (Police, Synchronicity, catalog# 0082839373524) I get (in part): TRACK 01

On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Derek at CD Baby wrote: > Just thought you'd like to know CD Baby has switched to FLAC for > archiving the 40,000 CDs we have in stock. > Luckily HD space is down below $1/gig so we got a 6-terabyte RAID-5 > box set up for about $7000. Well, even if you do have a lot of Morton Feldman (currently my record for best compression ratio--about 0.25 or so), I

I have read some posts about using FLAC to archive CD collections and would like to get some feedback. I am torn between creating a bin and cue file with CDDB info and compressing that down with FLAC as a single file or the second method of ripping all the files out to wav and converting to FLAC and maybe saving the cue file in attempt to use it later. The first method I believe will pretty much

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dan Phillips wrote: > I have read some posts about using FLAC to archive CD collections and > would like to get some feedback. I am torn between creating a bin and > cue file with CDDB info and compressing that down with FLAC as a single > file or the second method of ripping all the files out to wav and > converting to FLAC and maybe

On Tue, 27 May 2003, benny k. wrote: > I'm a little embarrased because its just a hack on metaflac, but if you > want it, i'll post it one my webpage. it should be easy to modify it for > use with a CD image. Why don't you submit to the sourceforge feature request queue as a patch? That way it will be there for anyone who wants to hack on it. Although maybe this kind of

I realize this was an answer to someone else, but... I use Trader's Little Helper for all my encoding/decoding projects (for FLAC mostly). does this automatically do more than just the tracks? If not, how can I get the rest? - - Audio data prior to the start of track 1 (and possibly after the end of the 'last' track, depending on the disc layout) - - Sub-code index information -

I see that this was the right place to fire off this question. Thanks for your feedback. It has given me a base to start some trials. I used to use EAC on Windows, but I tend to only use open source software as much as possible and I don't use Windows any more. I gave a brief look at abcde, but it is clear I need to look at this some more. It looks like it has the potential to do everything I