Linux in a Nutshell, 6th Edition

Name

cdparanoia

Synopsis

cdparanoia [options] span [outfile]

cdparanoia records Compact Disc audio files as WAV, AIFF, AIFF-C, or raw format files. It uses additional data-verification and sound-improvement algorithms to make the process more reliable and is used by a number of graphical recording programs as a backend. The output is written to outfile if specified; otherwise it is written to one of cdda.wav, cdda.aifc, or cdda.raw depending on the output-format option given.

The command takes one argument, span, which describes how much of the CD to record. It uses numbers followed by bracketed times to designate track numbers and time within them. For example, the string 1[2:23]-2[5] indicates a recording from the two-minute and twenty-three-second mark of the first track up to the fifth second of the second track. The time format is demarcated by colons, hours:minutes:seconds:.sectors, with the last item, sectors, preceded by a decimal point (a sector is 1/75 of a second). It’s best to put this argument within quotes.

If you use the -B option, the span argument is not required.

Options

-a, --output-aifc

Output in AIFF-C format.

-A, --analyze-drive

Analyze and log drive caching, timing and reading. Implies -vQL.

-B, --batch

Split output into multiple files, one per track. Each file begins with the track number. This is the most commonly used flag for this command.

-C, --force-cdrom-big-endian

Force cdparanoia to treat the drive as a big-endian device.

-c, --force-cdrom-little-endian

Force cdparanoia ...