Optical media tips

View drive capabilities: cd-drive

 

Rip Audio CD's

abcde -V -G -o flac

Rip multi-disc Audio CD's

abcde -V -G -o flac -W 1
abcde -V -G -o flac -W 2

 

Read scratched audio CDs:

sudo cdda2wav -vall -D /dev/sr0 speed=4 cddb=0 -B

 

If that doesn't work and your drive supports reading C2 pointers, try:

cdda2wav -vall paraopts=proof,c2check speed=4 cddb=0 -B

this does a lot more than the latest cdparanoia version did. Please read the man page to understand the error reports from libparanoia.

 

Use Picard to rename and apply metadata tags to wav files

 

Batch convert wav to flac, preserves metadata and embedded cover photos (Picard will add the cover photo to the wav):

for i in *.wav; do ffmpeg -i "$i" -c:a flac "${i%.*}.flac"; done

I found there were some issues due to unicode metadata and filenames but running the results back through Picard fixes metadata and filenames

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