Ripping Audio [inspired by Godwin's howto].

Extracting audio data from an audio CD disk.

First, you insert an audio CD into a CD drive -- either a standard CD drive or a CDRW drive -- and 'su' to root. Since the application cdparanoia addresses the drive directly, you need root privileges to do this. Now, type this command to get a printout of the CD's TOC:

# cdparanoia -Q

If you see something simillar to this:

cdparanoia III release 9.8 (March 23, 2001)
(C) 2001 Monty  and Xiphophorus

Report bugs to paranoia @ xiph.org
http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/

004: Unable to read table of contents header

Unable to open disc.  Is there an audio CD in the drive?

Chances are you don't have a /dev/cdrom symlink pointing to your CD drive, or that it is pointing to some other drive. Get round this by using the -d command line parameter to tell cdparanoia exactly where to look, in my case it's either /dev/scd0 or /dev/cdrw (usually /dev/scd0, which is a symlink to /dev/hdd anyway):

# cdparanoia -Q -d /dev/scd0
cdparanoia III release 9.8 (March 23, 2001)
(C) 2001 Monty  and Xiphophorus

Report bugs to paranoia @ xiph.org
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Table of contents (audio tracks only):
track        length               begin        copy pre ch
===========================================================
 1.    11270 [02:30.20]        0 [00:00.00]    no   no  2
 2.    11520 [02:33.45]    11270 [02:30.20]    no   no  2
 3.    17095 [03:47.70]    22790 [05:03.65]    no   no  2
 4.    30495 [06:46.45]    39885 [08:51.60]    no   no  2
 5.    26400 [05:52.00]    70380 [15:38.30]    no   no  2
 6.    40062 [08:54.12]    96780 [21:30.30]    no   no  2
 7.    31345 [06:57.70]   136842 [30:24.42]    no   no  2
 8.    15080 [03:21.05]   168187 [37:22.37]    no   no  2
 9.    16948 [03:45.73]   183267 [40:43.42]    no   no  2
10.    11820 [02:37.45]   200215 [44:29.40]    no   no  2
11.    29625 [06:35.00]   212035 [47:07.10]    no   no  2
12.    42695 [09:29.20]   241660 [53:42.10]    no   no  2
13.    38742 [08:36.42]   284355 [63:11.30]    no   no  2
TOTAL  323097 [71:47.72]    (audio only)

Of course, your output will be different from this, but it may be simillar.

For starters, let's rip the 8th track, & save it in a file called track08.wav:

# cdparanoia -d /dev/scd0 -w 8 track08.wav
cdparanoia III release 9.8 (March 23, 2001):
(C) 2001 Monty  and Xiphophorus:

Report bugs to paranoia @ xiph.org
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Ripping from sector  168187 (track  8 [0:00.00])
          to sector  183266 (track  8 [3:21.04])

outputting to track08.wav

 (== PROGRESS == [                              | 183266 00 ] == :^D * ==)
 Done.

The -w command line option tells cdparanoia to output the audio data into a .wav file & track08.wav is the name of that file.

Now, say you want some, but not all, of the tracks from this CD. As with Godwin's example, let's rip tracks 10 to 13::

# cdparanoia -d /dev/scd0 -w -B 10-13 wav
cdparanoia III release 9.8 (March 23, 2001)
 (C) 2001 Monty  and Xiphophorus

Report bugs to paranoia @ xiph.org
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Ripping from sector  200215 (track 10 [0:00.00])
          to sector  323096 (track 13 [8:36.41])

outputting to track10.wav

 (== PROGRESS == [                              | 212034 00 ] == :^D * ==)

outputting to track11.wav

 (== PROGRESS == [                              | 241659 00 ] == :^D * ==)

outputting to track12.wav

 (== PROGRESS == [                              | 284354 00 ] == :^D * ==)

outputting to track13.wav

 (== PROGRESS == [                              | 323096 00 ] == :^D * ==)

Done.