On 08/21/2013 07:53 AM Joerg Schilling wrote: > ken <gebser at mousecar.com> wrote: > >> Then too of course there'd need to be a way to ascertain if there was >> any substantial differences in the outputs. There's some code out there >> since kernel version 2.2 called cdfs which doesn't seem to be on my >> (v.5.9) system. This allows mounting an audio CD or a disk image of one >> so that it can be examined and, presumably, manipulated. In fact, maybe >> this is all I need at the moment... that is, after cloning the CD to a >> disk image, it might be possible to edit the track data prior to >> burning. I don't burn CDs that often, so this would be an acceptable >> solution. > > This cdfs does not deliver better quality than from using the "read audio" > ioctls from the kernel. Cdda2wav gives much better quylity in case of > non-optiimal media and cdda2wav gives you the meta data you need to make a > decent copy. You don't get that from cdfs. > > Jörg > I was asking about *mounting* an audio CD. Is there a way to mount an audio CD in any of the software you mentioned?