CD copy

I needed to run a command to copy one cd directly to another without ripping the tracks and burning them and thus loosing audio quality.

I read here linuxtopia.org/ that this command does the job:

sudo cdrdao copy  

and to get things working we need the scsi address for the reader and writer, using

cdrdao scanbus  

then we make/edit the cdrdao file with and to get things working we need the scsi address for the reader and writer, using

sudo nano /etc/default/cdrdao  

and add the lines with the scsi values..

write_device: "x,x,x" read_device: "y,y,y"  

except my scsi addresses were not found, I only had /dev/sr1 and /dev/sr0 reported -so I used those exactly, in the quotes " "

eject /dev/sr0  

is very handy for me as I had a laptop CD drive very hard to get open with its button. And now I map this in Ranger, to something like ,cdej

test the written cd with this command:

mplayer -cdrom-device /dev/sr1 cdda:// -cache 5000  

depending on which device holds the new cd, sr0 or sr1 etc.


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