n 08/17/2013 05:29 PM Joerg Schilling wrote:
ken gebser@mousecar.com wrote:
Copying a CD with k3b is no problem, except I want to include on my copy the cbbd data (from freedb.org). I've configured k3b's cddb section according to instructions at http://www.freedb.org/en/faq.3.html#15 and read every article google could find about "k3b cddb freedb.org config", but still k3b can't manage it. Grip handles getting the cddb data just fine. I'm beginning to think that k3b is simply broke as far as this functionality is concerned. But I thought I'd ask here if anyone has found a way to make this work.
Doing this is no problem if you just use the cdrtools from the commandline.
BTW: I recommend to use cdda2wav for audio extraction.
Jörg
Jörg,
Thanks for your reply. As late as November 2012 I always used the CLI for copying *data* CDs, using cdrecord and readcd. But though I read and studied manpages and scads of documentation, I never had any luck cloning a music CD using these commands. So I'd doubt I could figure out on my own, in addition to cloning a CD, adding in the song titles etc.
I guess I wasn't clear about ripping a CD. Grip, as I said handles this fine, including downloading the cddb data. So if I wanted to create wav (or ogg or other) files, I could use grip. But for some CDs, a series of wav files just doesn't play back well; I'm talking about music in which one track blends into the following track with no break in between. These don't play back well because audio players insert a break (perhaps because they need a second or so to load that second track) and, in addition, often this break isn't in a good moment. So I've decided to just burn the entire CD to avoid hearing the breaks. So is it even possible to save the cddb data to a copied CD?