Needed to boot windows to copy audio CD

[David Hummel]

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Tom Metro <blu-5a1Jt6qxUNc at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Laura Conrad wrote:
>> ...it seemed like somebody could just figure out those command lines
>> for me. And they do change from time to time, so you can't just
>> figure it out once and put it in a script or makefile.
>
> The dd command line should be pretty consistent, as long as your input
> device and output file location are constant. (You could always make the
> output file a script parameter.)
>
>> I thought that was what serpentine and brasero were doing.
>
> I'm not familiar with those tools, but I would expect any modern CD
> recording tool to have a clone option where it will take an existing CD,
> write it to an ISO file, or directly to another CD drive. Perhaps these
> tools can do that, you just need to do it in two steps, first creating
> the ISO, then burning a new disk from it.

CD-DA disks do not contain an ISO file system so dd and ISO tools and
the like won't work.  You need to use a tool that is capable of
extracting CD-DA, like cdparanoia or Sound Juicer, and then use
another tool that is capable of burning CD-DA disks.