INTRODUCTION
This program is a CD audio ripper for Linux. However, instead of reading the tracks specified in the CD's table of contents (TOC) it reads tracks as specified by the user. For example, you could read the whole CD as one track, or split it up in some other way to your liking.
This is very useful when the CD's TOC is full of garbage, for example with some copy protected CDs.
COMPILATION
Run make. Copy the executable to somewhere in your path if you want to.
USAGE
discreader [-d device] [tracks]
The device will default to /dev/cdrom if you don't specify one. The number of tracks is the number of tracks you want to read from the CD. It could be greater than or less than the actual number of tracks on the disc.
The output files contain only the raw data, as read from the CD. Most people will want to convert these to WAV files. For example, using sox, sox -t raw -r 44100 -s -w -c 2 track01.raw -t wav track01.wav
DISCLAIMER
It should work, but don't blame me if it destroys something.
CONTACTING THE AUTHOR
I hope this software is useful to someone. If you have any comments or questions, feel free to contact me.
Steven Cook
sven@harshbutfair.org
http://www.harshbutfair.org