n 08/17/2013 05:29 PM Joerg Schilling wrote: > ken <gebser at 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?