Hi,
Bit late to join in the discussion but I've just read through the CD
archiving discussion and was particular interested in Dax's method,
described here (also included below):
http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/flac/2006-September/000611.html
So far I've just been flac-ing my CDs to individual one-flac-per-track
files, however it appears I've been missing some of the other bits of
info on the CD.
I haven't been using abcde (i've been using KAudioCreator which is a
front-end for cdparanoia, AIUI) so I've been a bit lost by some of the
detailed methods described by others, as well as Dax.
Given that I've already flac-ed a good many CDs, is it enough to go
back and run a batch file like this on each CD:
cd-discid /dev/hdc > discid.txt
cdrdao read-toc --device /dev/hdc toc.txt
and save those txt files with the flac albums. Would that be enough
to be able to re-generate the CD again later with the same cddbid
etc.? i.e. would that extract all info I might conceivably require
again later?
Thanks!
Peter.
I went with the one song per flac file approach with the ability to
reproduce the exact original CD if needed.
The Ripping/Encoding process goes like this:
cd-discid /dev/hdc > discid.txt
cdrdao read-toc --device /dev/hdc toc.txt
cdrdao read-cddb toc.txt
Now rip and encode to FLAC (each track separate) with metadata.
I have a modified abcde that does this. The modification is in my
abce.conf I added is:
post_read ()
{
# Figure out what OUTPUTFILEDIR should be
export `eval $($CDDBTOOL parse "$CDDBDATA")`
export ALBUMFILE=$(mungefilename "$DALBUM")
splitvarious
export ARTISTFILE=$(mungefilename "$TRACKARTIST")
export OUTPUTFORMAT='${ARTISTFILE}-${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}.${TRACKFILE}'
export
VAOUTPUTFORMAT='Various-${ALBUMFILE}/${TRACKNUM}.${ARTISTFILE}-${TRACKFILE}'
if [ "$VARIOUSARTISTS" = "y" ]; then
export OUTPUTFILE=$(eval echo $VAOUTPUTFORMAT)
else
export OUTPUTFILE=$(eval echo $OUTPUTFORMAT)
fi
export OUTPUTFILEDIR=$(dirname "$OUTPUTDIR/$OUTPUTFILE")
# Sheesh glad that is done. Now save the discid.txt for comparison later
# and the toc.txt
mkdir -p "$OUTPUTFILEDIR"
cd-discid $CDROM > "$OUTPUTFILEDIR/discid.txt"
cdrdao read-toc --with-cddb --cddb-timeout 90 --device $CDROM
"$OUTPUTFILEDIR/toc.txt"
}
And then I inserted a call to my post_read into abcde.
Edit the abcde script and right before the line:
# We are now finished with the cdrom - it can be safely ejected. ...
Add the line:
post_read # Execute the user-defined post-read function before ejecting
Now to go back to the other direction, create an "original CD" (ie, one
with the same CDDB discid), do the following:
cd /path/to/album/
shntool join --stdout *.flac > data.wav
cdrdao write --device /dev/hdc toc.txt
rm data.wav
This is the procedure I used on several hundred CDs I own in order to
get a FLAC archive of them. I use several Squeezeboxes in my house to
listen to them.
Dax Kelson
Guru Labs
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