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CDDA2WAV(1)							   CDDA2WAV(1)

NAME
       cdda2wav	 -  a sampling utility that dumps CD audio data into wav sound
       files

SYNOPSIS
       cdda2wav [-c chans] [-s] [-m] [-b bits]	[-r  rate]  [-a	 divider]  [-t
       track[+endtrack]]  [-i  index] [-o offset] [-d duration] [-x] [-q] [-w]
       [-v optlist] [-V] [-Q] [-J] [-L cddbmode] [-R] [-P sectors]  [-F]  [-G]
       [-T] [-e] [-p percentage] [-n sectors] [-l buffers] [-N] [-J] [-H] [-g]
       [-B] [-D device] [-A  auxdevice]	 [-I  interface]  [-O  audiotype]  [-C
       input-endianess]	 [-E  output-endianess]	 [-M count] [-S speed] [-para-
       noia] [cddbp-server=servername] [cddbp-port=portnumber] [filename(s) or
       directories]

DESCRIPTION
       cdda2wav	 can retrieve audio tracks from CDROM drives (see README for a
       list of drives) that are capable of reading audio data digitally to the
       host (CDDA).

OPTIONS
       dev=device

       -D device

       -device device
	      uses  device  as	the  source  for  CDDA	reading.   For example
	      /dev/cdrom for the cooked_ioctl interface and Bus,ID,Lun for the
	      generic_scsi  interface.	The  device has to correspond with the
	      interface setting (see below).

	      Using the cooked_ioctl is not recommended as this makes cdda2wav
	      mainly  depend  on the audio extraction quality of the operating
	      system which is usually extremely bad.

	      The setting of the environment variable CDDA_DEVICE is  overrid-
	      den by this option.

       -A auxdevice

       -auxdevice auxdevice
	      uses auxdevice as CDROM drive for ioctl usage.

       -I interface

       -interface interface
	      specifies	 the  interface	 for CDROM access: generic_scsi or (on
	      Linux, and FreeBSD systems) cooked_ioctl.

       -c channels  --channels
	      uses 1 for mono, or 2 for stereo	recording,  or	s  for	stereo
	      recording with both channels swapped.

       -s  --stereo
	      sets to stereo recording.

       -m  --mono
	      sets to mono recording.

       -x  --max
	      sets maximum (CD) quality.

       -b bits	--bits-per-sample
	      sets bits per sample per channel: 8, 12 or 16.

       -r rate	--rate
	      sets  rate  in  samples  per second.  Possible values are listed
	      with the -R option.

       -a divider  --divider
	      sets rate to 44100Hz / divider.  Possible values are listed with
	      the -R option.

       -R  --dump-rates
	      shows a list of all sample rates and their dividers.

       -P  sectors  --set-overlap
	      sets  the	 initial  number of overlap sectors for jitter correc-
	      tion.

       -n sectors  --sectors-per-request
	      reads sectors per request.

       -l buffers  --buffers-in-ring
	      uses a ring buffer with buffers total.

       -t track+endtrack  --track
	      selects the start track and optionally the end track.

       -i index	 --index
	      selects the start index.

       -o offset  --offset
	      starts offset sectors behind start track (one sector equivalents
	      1/75 seconds).

       -O  audiotype  --output-format
	      can be wav (for wav files) or aiff (for apple/sgi aiff files) or
	      aifc (for apple/sgi aifc files) or au or sun (for	 sun  .au  PCM
	      files)  or  cdr  or  raw (for headerless files to be used for cd
	      writers).

       -C endianess  --cdrom-endianess
	      sets endianess of	 the  input  samples  to  'little',  'big'  or
	      'guess' to override defaults.

       -E endianess  --output-endianess
	      sets  endianess  of  the	output samples to 'little' or 'big' to
	      override defaults.

       -d duration  --duration
	      sets recording time in seconds or frames.	 Frames (sectors)  are
	      indicated by a 'f' suffix (like 75f for 75 sectors).  0 sets the
	      time for whole track.

       -B  --bulk --alltracks
	      copies each track into a seperate file.

       -w  --wait
	      waits for signal, then start recording.

       -F  --find-extremes
	      finds extrem amplitudes in samples.

       -G  --find-mono
	      finds if input samples are in mono.

       -T  --deemphasize
	      undo the effect of pre-emphasis in the input samples.

       -e  --echo
	      copies audio data to sound device e.g.  /dev/dsp.

       -p  percentage --set-pitch
	      changes pitch of audio data copied to sound device.

       -v  itemlist  --verbose-level
	      prints verbose information about the CD.	Level  is  a  list  of
	      comma  seperated suboptions. Each suboption controls the type of
	      information to be reported.

	+----------+----------------------------------------------------------------+
	|Suboption | Description						    |
	+----------+----------------------------------------------------------------+
	|  disable | no information is given, warnings appear however		    |
	|      all | all information is given					    |
	|      toc | show table of contents					    |
	|  summary | show a summary of the recording parameters			    |
	|  indices | determine and display index offsets			    |
	|  catalog | retrieve and display the media catalog number MCN		    |
	|  trackid | retrieve and display all Intern. Standard Recording Codes ISRC |
	|  sectors | show the table of contents in start sector notation	    |
	|   titles | show the table of contents with track titles (when available)  |
	+----------+----------------------------------------------------------------+
       -N  --no-write
	      does not write to a file, it  just  reads	 (for  debugging  pur-
	      poses).

       -J  --info-only
	      does  not	 write	to a file, it just gives information about the
	      disc.

       -L  cddb mode --cddb
	      does a cddbp album- and track title lookup based on the cddb id.
	      The  parameter  cddb  mode defines how multiple entries shall be
	      handled.

	   +----------+-----------------------------------------------------------+
	   |Parameter | Description						  |
	   +----------+-----------------------------------------------------------+
	   |	    0 | interactive mode. The user selects the entry to use.	  |
	   |	    1 | first fit mode. The first entry is taken unconditionally. |
	   +----------+-----------------------------------------------------------+
	cddbp-server=servername
	      sets the server to be contacted for title lookups.

	cddbp-port=portnumber
	      sets the port number to be used for title lookups.

       -H  --no-infofile
	      does not write an info file and a cddb file.

       -g  --gui
	      formats the output to be better parsable by gui frontends.

       -M  count --md5
	      enables calculation of MD-5 checksum for 'count'	bytes  from  a
	      beginning of a track.

       -S  speed --speed
	      sets  the cdrom device to one of the selectable speeds for read-
	      ing.

       -q  --quiet
	      quiet operation, no screen output.

       -V  --verbose-SCSI
	      enable SCSI command logging to the console. This is mainly  used
	      for debugging.

       -Q  --silent-SCSI
	      suppress	SCSI  command  error  reports  to the console. This is
	      mainly used for guis.

       -scanbus
	      Scan all SCSI devices on all SCSI busses and print  the  inquiry
	      strings.	This  option  may  be used to find SCSI address of the
	      CD/DVD-Recorder on a system.  The numbers printed out as	labels
	      are computed by: bus * 100 + target

       -paranoia
	      use  the	paranoia  library  instead  of cdda2wav's routines for
	      reading.

       -h  --help
	      display version of cdda2wav on standard output.

       Defaults depend on the
	      Makefile	 and   environment   variable	settings    (currently
	      CDDA_DEVICE ).

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
       CDDA_DEVICE  is	used to set the device name. The device naming is com-
       patible with Joerg Schilling's cdrecord package.

       CDDBP_SERVER
	      is used for cddbp title lookups when supplied.

       CDDBP_PORT
	      is used for cddbp title lookups when supplied.

       RSH    If the RSH environment variable is present, the  remote  connec-
	      tion  will not be created via rcmd(3) but by calling the program
	      pointed to by RSH.   Use	e.g.   RSH=/usr/bin/ssh	 to  create  a
	      secure shell connection.

	      Note  that  this	forces cdda2wav to create a pipe to the rsh(1)
	      program and disallows cdda2wav to directly  access  the  network
	      socket to the remote server.  This makes it impossible to set up
	      performance parameters and slows down the connection compared to
	      a root initiated rcmd(3) connection.

       RSCSI  If  the  RSCSI  environment variable is present, the remote SCSI
	      server will not be the program  /opt/schily/sbin/rscsi  but  the
	      program  pointed	to by RSCSI.  Note that the remote SCSI server
	      program name will be ignored if you log in using an account that
	      has  been	 created  with	a  remote SCSI server program as login
	      shell.

RETURN VALUES
       cdda2wav uses the following exit codes to indicate various  degress  of
       success:

   +---------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
   |Exitcode | Description							  |
   +---------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
   |	   0 | no errors encountered, successful operation.			  |
   |	   1 | usage or syntax error. cdda2wav got inconsistent arguments.	  |
   |	   2 | permission (un)set errors. permission changes failed.		  |
   |	   3 | read errors on the cdrom/burner device encountered.		  |
   |	   4 | write errors while writing one of the output files encountered.	  |
   |	   5 | errors with soundcard handling (initialization/write).		  |
   |	   6 | errors with stat() system call on the read device (cooked ioctl).  |
   |	   7 | pipe communication errors encountered (in forked mode).		  |
   |	   8 | signal handler installation errors encountered.			  |
   |	   9 | allocation of shared memory failed (in forked mode).		  |
   |	  10 | dynamic heap memory allocation failed.				  |
   |	  11 | errors on the audio cd medium encountered.			  |
   |	  12 | device open error in ioctl handling detected.			  |
   |	  13 | race condition in ioctl interface handling detected.		  |
   |	  14 | error in ioctl() operation encountered.				  |
   |	  15 | internal error encountered. Please report back!!!		  |
   |	  16 | error in semaphore operation encountered (install / request).	  |
   |	  17 | could not get the scsi transfer buffer.				  |
   |	  18 | could not create pipes for process communication (in forked mode). |
   +---------+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
DISCUSSION
       cdda2wav is able to read parts of an audio CD or multimedia CDROM (con-
       taining audio parts) directly digitally. These parts can be written  to
       a file, a pipe, or to a sound device.

       cdda2wav	 stands	 for  CDDA  to WAV (where CDDA stands for compact disc
       digital audio and WAV is a sound sample format introduced  by  MS  Win-
       dows).	It  allows copying CDDA audio data from the CDROM drive into a
       file in WAV or other formats.

       The latest versions try to get higher real-time	scheduling  priorities
       to ensure smooth (uninterrupted) operation. These priorities are avail-
       able for super users and are higher than those of  'normal'  processes.
       Thus delays are minimized.

       If  your	 CDROM is on device DEV and it is loaded with an audio CD, you
       may simply invoke cdda2wav dev=DEV and it will create  the  sound  file
       audio.wav recording the whole track beginning with track 1 in stereo at
       16 bit at 44100 Hz sample rate, if your file system  has	 enough	 space
       free.   Otherwise recording time will be limited. For details see files
       README and README.INSTALL

HINTS ON OPTIONS
       Options
	      Most of the options are used to control the format  of  the  WAV
	      file. In the following text all of them are described.

       Select Device
	      -D device selects the CDROM drive device to be used.  The speci-
	      fier given should correspond  to	the  selected  interface  (see
	      below).	CHANGE!	  For  the  cooked_ioctl interface this is the
	      cdrom device descriptor as before.  The SCSI devices  used  with
	      the  generic SCSI interface however are now addressed with their
	      SCSI-Bus, SCSI-Id, and SCSI-Lun  instead	of  the	 generic  SCSI
	      device  descriptor!!!  One example for a SCSI CDROM drive on bus
	      0 with SCSI ID 3 and lun 0 is -D0,3,0.

       Select Auxiliary device
	      -A auxdevice is necessary for CD-Extra handling.	For  Non-SCSI-
	      CDROM drives this is the same device as given by -D (see above).
	      For SCSI-CDROM drives it is the CDROM drive (SCSI) device	 (i.e.
	      /dev/sr0	)  corresponding to the SCSI device (i.e.  0,3,0 ). It
	      has to match the device used for sampling.

       Select Interface
	      -I interface selects the CDROM drive interface. For SCSI	drives
	      use  generic_scsi (cooked_ioctl may not yet be available for all
	      devices): generic_scsi and cooked_ioctl.	 The  first  uses  the
	      generic  SCSI  interface, the latter uses the ioctl of the CDROM
	      driver. The latter variant works only  when  the	kernel	driver
	      supports	CDDA  reading.	This  entry  has to match the selected
	      CDROM device (see above).

       Enable echo to soundcard
	      -e copies audio data to the sound card while recording,  so  you
	      hear  it nearly simultaneously. The soundcard gets the same data
	      that is recorded. This is time critical, so it works  best  with
	      the  -q  option.	 To use cdda2wav as a pseudo CD player without
	      recording in a file you could use cdda2wav -q -e -t2 -d0	-N  to
	      play  the whole second track. This feature reduces the recording
	      speed to at most onefold speed. You cannot make  better  record-
	      ings  than  your	sound  card  can  play (since the same data is
	      used).

       Change pitch of echoed audio
	      -p percentage changes the pitch of all audio echoed to  a	 sound
	      card.  Only  the copy to the soundcard is affected, the recorded
	      audio samples in a file remain the same.	Normal pitch, which is
	      the  default, is given by 100%.  Lower percentages correspond to
	      lower pitches, i.e.  -p  50  transposes  the  audio  output  one
	      octave lower.  See also the script pitchplay as an example. This
	      option was contributed by Raul Sobon.

       Select mono or stereo recording
	      -m or -c 1 selects mono  recording  (both	 stereo	 channels  are
	      mixed), -s or -c 2 or -c s selects stereo recording. Parameter s
	      will swap both sound channels.

       Select maximum quality
	      -x will set stereo, 16 bits per sample  at  44.1	KHz  (full  CD
	      quality).	 Note that other format options given later can change
	      this setting.

       Select sample quality
	      -b 8 specifies 8 bit (1 Byte) for each sample in	each  channel;
	      -b 12 specifies 12 bit (2 Byte) for each sample in each channel;
	      -b 16 specifies 16 bit (2 Byte) for each sample in each  channel
	      (Ensure  that  your  sample  player  or sound card is capable of
	      playing 12-bit or 16-bit samples). Selecting 12 or 16 bits  dou-
	      bles  file  size.	 12-bit samples are aligned to 16-bit samples,
	      so they waste some disk space.

       Select sample rate
	      -r samplerate selects a sample rate.  samplerate	can  be	 in  a
	      range  between  44100  and  900.	Option	-R lists all available
	      rates.

       Select sample rate divider
	      -a divider selects a sample rate divider.	 divider can be	 mini-
	      mally  1	and  maximally 50.5 and everything between in steps of
	      0.5.  Option -R lists all available rates.

	      To make the sound smoother at  lower  sampling  rates,  cdda2wav
	      sums  over  n samples (where n is the specific dividend). So for
	      22050 Hertz output we have to sum over 2 samples, for 900	 Hertz
	      we  have	to  sum over 49 samples.  This cancels higher frequen-
	      cies. Standard sector size of an audio CD	 (ignoring  additional
	      information)  is	2352  Bytes. In order to finish summing for an
	      output sample at sector boundaries the rates above  have	to  be
	      choosen.	Arbitrary sampling rates in high quality would require
	      some interpolation scheme, which needs much  more	 sophisticated
	      programming.

       List a table of all sampling rates
	      -R shows a list of all sample rates and their dividers. Dividers
	      can range from 1 to 50.5 in steps of 0.5.

       Select start track and optionally end track
	      -t n+m selects n as the start track and optionally m as the last
	      track  of a range to be recorded.	 These tracks must be from the
	      table of contents.  This sets the track where recording  begins.
	      Recording can advance through the following tracks as well (lim-
	      ited by the optional end track or otherwise depending on record-
	      ing  time). Whether one file or different files are then created
	      depends on the -B option (see below).

       Select start index
	      -i n selects the index to start recording with.	Indices	 other
	      than  1 will invoke the index scanner, which will take some time
	      to find the correct start position. An offset may be given addi-
	      tionally (see below).

       Set recording time
	      -d  n sets recording time to n seconds or set recording time for
	      whole track if n is zero. In order to specify  the  duration  in
	      frames  (sectors)	 also,	the argument can have an appended 'f'.
	      Then the numerical argument is to be taken as  frames  (sectors)
	      rather than seconds.  Please note that if track ranges are being
	      used they define the recording time as well thus overriding  any
	      -d option specified times.

	      Recording	 time is defined as the time the generated sample will
	      play (at the defined sample rate). Since	it's  related  to  the
	      amount  of  generated samples, it's not the time of the sampling
	      process itself (which  can  be  less  or	more).	 It's  neither
	      strictly	coupled	 with  the  time  information  on the audio CD
	      (shown by your hifi CD player).  Differences can	occur  by  the
	      usage  of	 the -o option (see below). Notice that recording time
	      will be shortened, unless enough disk  space  exists.  Recording
	      can  be aborted at anytime by pressing the break character (sig-
	      nal SIGQUIT).

       Record all tracks of a complete audio CD in seperate files
	      -B copies each track into a seperate file. A base	 name  can  be
	      given. File names have an appended track number and an extension
	      corresponding to the audio format. To record all audio tracks of
	      a CD, use a sufficient high duration (i.e. -d99999).

       Set start sector offset
	      -o  sectors increments start sector of the track by sectors.  By
	      this option you are able to skip a certain amount at the	begin-
	      ning  of a track so you can pick exactly the part you want. Each
	      sector runs for 1/75 seconds, so you have very fine control.  If
	      your  offset  is	so high that it would not fit into the current
	      track, a warning message is issued and the  offset  is  ignored.
	      Recording time is not reduced.  (To skip introductory quiet pas-
	      sages automagically, use the -w option see below.)

       Wait for signal option
	      -w Turning on this option will suppress  all  silent  output  at
	      startup,	reducing  possibly file size.  cdda2wav will watch for
	      any signal in the output signal and switches on writing to file.

       Find extrem samples
	      -F Turning on this option will display the most negative and the
	      most positive sample value found during recording for both chan-
	      nels.  This can be useful for readjusting the volume. The values
	      shown are not reset at track boundaries, they cover the complete
	      sampling	process.  They are taken from the original samples and
	      have the same format (i.e. they are independent of the  selected
	      output format).

       Find if input samples are in mono
	      -G If this option is given, input samples for both channels will
	      be compared. At the end of the program the  result  is  printed.
	      Differences in the channels indicate stereo, otherwise when both
	      channels are equal it will indicate mono.

       Undo the pre-emphasis in the input samples
	      -T Some older audio CDs are recorded with a  modified  frequency
	      response	called pre-emphasis. This is found mostly in classical
	      recordings. The correction can be seen in the flags of the Table
	      Of Contents often. But there are recordings, that show this set-
	      ting only in the subchannels. If this option is given, the index
	      scanner  will  be	 started, which reads the q-subchannel of each
	      track. If pre-emphasis is indicated in  the  q-subchannel	 of  a
	      track,  but  not	in the TOC, pre-emphasis will be assumed to be
	      present, and subsequently a reverse filtering is done  for  this
	      track before the samples are written into the audio file.

       Set audio format
	      -O   audiotype  can be wav (for wav files) or au or sun (for sun
	      PCM files) or cdr or raw (for headerless files to be used for cd
	      writers).	 All file samples are coded in linear pulse code modu-
	      lation (as done in the audio compact disc	 format).  This	 holds
	      for  all	audio  formats.	  Wav  files are compatible to Wind*ws
	      sound files, they have lsb,msb byte order as being used  on  the
	      audio  cd.  The  default filename extension is '.wav'.  Sun type
	      files are not like the older common  logarithmically  coded  .au
	      files,  but  instead  as mentioned above linear PCM is used. The
	      byte order is msb,lsb to be  compatible.	The  default  filename
	      extension	 is  '.au'.   The AIFF and the newer variant AIFC from
	      the Apple/SGI world store	 their	samples	 in  bigendian	format
	      (msb,lsb).  In AIFC no compression is used.  Finally the easiest
	      'format', the cdr aka raw format. It  is	done  per  default  in
	      msb,lsb  byte order to satisfy the order wanted by most cd writ-
	      ers. Since there is no header information in  this  format,  the
	      sample  parameters can only be identified by playing the samples
	      on a soundcard or similiar. The default  filename	 extension  is
	      '.cdr' or '.raw'.

       Select cdrom drive reading speed
	      -S  speed allows to switch the cdrom drive to a certain level of
	      speed in order to reduce read errors. The argument is transfered
	      verbatim	to  the	 drive.	 Details depend very much on the cdrom
	      drives.  An argument of 0 for example is often the default speed
	      of the drive, a value of 1 often selects single speed.

       Enable MD5 checksums
	      -M  count enables calculation of MD-5 checksum for 'count' bytes
	      from the beginning of a track. This  was	introduced  for	 quick
	      comparisons of tracks.

       Use Monty's libparanoia for reading of sectors
	      -paranoia	 selects an alternate way of extracting audio sectors.
	      Monty's library is used with the following default options:

	      PARANOIA_MODE_FULL, but without PARANOIA_MODE_NEVERSKIP

	      for details see Monty's libparanoia documentation.  In this case
	      the option -P has no effect.

       Do linear or overlapping reading of sectors
	      (This  applies  unless  option  -paranoia is used.)  -P  sectors
	      sets the given number of sectors for  initial  overlap  sampling
	      for  jitter  correction.	Two cases are to be distinguished. For
	      nonzero values, some sectors are read twice to enable cdda2wav's
	      jitter  correction.  If an argument of zero is given, no overlap
	      sampling will be used.  For  nonzero  overlap  sectors  cdda2wav
	      dynamically adjusts the setting during sampling (like cdparanoia
	      does).  If no match can be found, cdda2wav retries the read with
	      an increased overlap.  If the amount of jitter is lower than the
	      current overlapped samples, cdda2wav reduces  the	 overlap  set-
	      ting,  resulting	in a higher reading speed.  The argument given
	      has to be lower than the total number  of	 sectors  per  request
	      (see  option  -n	below).	  Cdda2wav will check this setting and
	      issues a error message otherwise.	 The case of zero  sectors  is
	      nice  on low load situations or errorfree (perfect) cdrom drives
	      and perfect (not scratched) audio cds.

       Set the transfer size
	      -n  sectors will set the transfer size to the specified  sectors
	      per request.

       Set number of ring buffer elements
	      -l   buffers  will  allocate the specified number of ring buffer
	      elements.

       Set endianess of input samples
	      -C  endianess will override the default settings	of  the	 input
	      format.  Endianess can be set explicitly to "little" or "big" or
	      to the  automatic	 endianess  detection  based  on  voting  with
	      "guess".

       Set endianess of output samples
	      -E  endianess (endianess can be "little" or "big") will override
	      the default settings of the output format.

       Verbose option
	      -v  itemlist prints more information. A list allows selection of
	      different information items.

	      disable keeps quiet

	      toc displays the table of contents

	      summary displays a summary of recording parameters

	      indices  invokes	the index scanner and displays start positions
	      of indices

	      catalog retrieves and displays a media catalog number

	      trackid retrieves and displays international standard  recording
	      codes

	      sectors  displays track start positions in absolute sector nota-
	      tion

	      To combine several requests just list the	 suboptions  seperated
	      with commas.

       The table of contents
	      The  display  will  show	the  table  of contents with number of
	      tracks and total time (displayed in mm:ss.hh format, mm=minutes,
	      ss=seconds,  hh=rounded 1/100 seconds).  The following list dis-
	      plays track number and track time for each entry.	  The  summary
	      gives a line per track describing the type of the track.

		      track preemphasis copypermitted tracktype chans

	      The  track  column holds the track number.  preemphasis shows if
	      that track has been  given  a  non  linear  frequency  response.
	      NOTE: You can undo this effect with the -T option.  copy-permit-
	      ted indicates if this track is allowed to copy.	tracktype  can
	      be  data	or  audio. On multimedia CDs (except hidden track CDs)
	      both of them should be present.  channels is defined  for	 audio
	      tracks only. There can be two or four channels.

       No file output
	      -N this debugging option switches off writing to a file.

       No infofile generation
	      -H  this option switches off creation of an info file and a cddb
	      file.

       Generation of simple output for gui frontends
	      -g this option switches on  simple  line	formatting,  which  is
	      needed to support gui frontends (like xcd-roast).

       Verbose SCSI logging
	      -V  this	option switches on logging of SCSI commands. This will
	      produce a lot of output (when  SCSI  devices  are	 being	used).
	      This is needed for debugging purposes. The format is the same as
	      being used with the cdrecord program from	 Joerg	Schilling.   I
	      will not describe it here.

       Quiet option
	      -q  suppresses  all  screen  output except error messages.  That
	      reduces cpu time resources.

       Just show information option
	      -J does not write a file, it only prints information  about  the
	      disc  (depending on the -v option). This is just for information
	      purposes.

CDDBP support
       Lookup album and track titles option
	      -L  cddbp mode Cdda2wav tries to retrieve performer, album-, and
	      track  titles  from a cddbp server. The default server right now
	      is 'freedb.freedb.org'.  It is planned to have more control over
	      the  server  handling later.  The parameter defines how multiple
	      entries are handled:

       0	interactive mode, the user chooses one of the entries.

       1	take the first entry without asking.

       Set server for title lookups
	      cddbp-server  servername When using -L  or  --cddb,  the	server
	      being contacted can be set with this option.

       Set portnumber for title lookups
	      cddbp-port   portnumber When using -L or --cddb, the server port
	      being contacted can be set with this option.

HINTS ON USAGE
       Don't create samples you cannot read. First check  your	sample	player
       software	 and sound card hardware. I experienced problems with very low
       sample rates (stereo <= 1575 Hz, mono <= 3675 Hz) when trying  to  play
       them  with  standard  WAV players for sound blaster (maybe they are not
       legal in WAV format). Most CD-Writers insist  on	 audio	samples	 in  a
       bigendian  format.   Now	 cdda2wav supports the -E  endianess option to
       control the endianess of the written samples.

       If your hardware is fast enough to run cdda2wav uninterrupted and  your
       CD drive is one of the 'perfect' ones, you will gain speed when switch-
       ing all overlap sampling off with the -P	 0 option. Further fine tuning
       can  be done with the -n	 sectors option. You can specify how much sec-
       tors should be requested in one go.

       Cdda2wav supports pipes now. Use a filename of - to let cdda2wav output
       its samples to standard output.

       Conversion  to  other  sound  formats can be done using the sox program
       package (although the use of sox -x to change the byte order of samples
       should  be  no more necessary; see option -E to change the output byte-
       order).

       If you want to sample more than one track into different files  in  one
       run, this is currently possible with the -B option. When recording time
       exceeds the track limit a new file will be opened for the next track.

FILES
       Cdda2wav can generate a lot of files for various purposes.

       Audio files:

       There are audio files containing samples with default extensions	 These
       files  are  not generated when option (-N) is given. Multiple files may
       be written when the bulk copy option  (-B)  is  used.  Individual  file
       names  can  be given as arguments. If the number of file names given is
       sufficient to cover all included audio tracks, the file names  will  be
       used  verbatim.	 Otherwise,  if	 there	are less file names than files
       needed to write the included tracks, the part of the file  name	before
       the  extension  is  extended with '_dd' where dd represents the current
       track number.

       Cddb and Cdindex files:

       If cdda2wav detects cd-extra or cd-text	(album/track)  title  informa-
       tion,  then .cddb and .cdindex files are generated unless suppressed by
       the option -H. They contain suitable formatted entries  for  submission
       to  audio  cd  track  title  databases in the internet. The CDINDEX and
       CDDB(tm) systems are currently supported. For more  information	please
       visit www.musicbrainz.org and www.freedb.com.

       Inf files:

       The  inf	 files	are  describing the sample files and the part from the
       audio cd, it was taken from. They are a means to	 transfer  information
       to  a  cd  burning  program like cdrecord. For example, if the original
       audio cd had pre-emphasis enabled, and cdda2wav -T did remove the  pre-
       emphasis,  then	the inf file has pre-emphasis not set (since the audio
       file does not have it anymore), while the .cddb and the	.cdindex  have
       pre-emphasis set as the original does.

WARNING
       IMPORTANT:  it  is prohibited to sell copies of copyrighted material by
       noncopyright holders. This program may not be used to circumvent	 copy-
       rights.	The user acknowledges this constraint when using the software.

BUGS
       Generation of md5 checksums is currently broken.

       Performance may not be optimal on slower systems.

       The index scanner may give timeouts.

       The resampling (rate conversion code)  uses  polynomial	interpolation,
       which is not optimal.

       Cdda2wav should use threads.

       Cdda2wav currently cannot sample hidden audio tracks (track 1 index 0).

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
       Thanks goto Project MODE (http://www.mode.net/) and Fraunhofer Institut
       fuer  integrierte  Schaltungen  (FhG-IIS)  (http://www.iis.fhg.de/) for
       financial support.  Plextor Europe and Ricoh Japan provided cdrom  disk
       drives  and  cd	burners	 which	helped a lot to develop this software.
       Rammi has helped a lot with the debugging and showed a lot  of  stamina
       when  hearing  100 times the first 16 seconds of the first track of the
       Krupps CD.  Libparanoia contributed by Monty  (Christopher  Montgomery)
       xiphmont@mit.edu.

AUTHOR
       Heiko Eissfeldt heiko@colossus.escape.de

DATE
       11 Sep 2002

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