ken gebser@mousecar.com wrote:
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.
Are you using recent original software or are you using an outdated, dead and defective fork that is distributed by some non-OpenSource oriented Linux sources?
If you are using this bad fork that is from September 2004 - 9 years ago, you suffer from many problems, like incomplete documentation and many bugs that cannot be found in the original software.
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?
Programs like grip and cdparanoia don't care about the usability of the extracted files for later burning tasks and they are not able to extract so called "un-CDs".
cdda2wav knows about the writing process, feteches cddb data and includes a bug-fixed libparanoia.
Recent man pages also contain several related examples. Did you read a recent manpage and follow the EXAMPLE section?
Jörg