NAME

cdda2ogg, cdda2mp3 - extract CD audio tracks and encode them

SYNOPSIS

cdda2ogg [ options ][ dev=device ] [file prefix] [ogg opts]

cdda2mp3 [ options ][ dev=device ] [file prefix] [lame opts]

DESCRIPTION

cdda2ogg is a script that uses the cdda2wav command to extract all audio tracks with the cdda2wav command and encode them using the oggenc(1) Ogg Vorbis encoder.

cdda2mp3 is a script that uses the cdda2wav command to extract all audio tracks with the cdda2wav command and encode them using the lame(1) MP3 encoder.

There is no CDDB support yet.

OPTIONS

-help

print a short online usage message and exit.

dev=device

The device to read the data from. If there is only one CD-ROM drive in the system, the dev= option may be omitted. For possible values of the device parameter, see the cdrecord(1) man page.

-*

Any other option beginning with a '-' sign is passed to the cdda2wav program.

Any other option past the file prefix argument and beginning with a '-' sign is passed to the encoder program.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

The following environment variables may be used to change the behavior of the cdda2ogg and the cdda2mp3 command:

CDDA2WAV

Defines the command to extract WAV data from the CD. The default value is cdda2wav.

CDDA2WAV_OPTS

Defines the options passed to the CDDA program while extracting from the CD. The default value is -H -q.

MP_CODER

The encoder program used to compress the audio data. The default value is oggenc for cdda2ogg and lame for cdda2mp3.

MP_OPTIONS

Options passed to the encoder program. The default is empty.

FILEPREFIX

The base filename part of the resulting audio files. The default file name is $TRACK-$FILEPREFIX.ogg for cdda2ogg and $TRACK-$FILEPREFIX.mp3 for cdda2mp3 if no file prefix argument was given on the command line.

FILES

If the following files are present, then the scripts source them to set up local defaults:

/etc/default/cdda2ogg

To set up default values for cdda2ogg.

/etc/default/cdda2mp3

To set up default values for cdda2mp3.

The content may be set up to modify environment variables or to set up local defaults.

SEE ALSO

cdda2wav(1), cdrecord(1), oggenc(1), lame(1).

NOTES

If a CD contains a hidden audio track before track 1, a file name with track number 00 is created with the content of the hidden track.

The program oggenc(1) is part of the vorbis-tools project See http://www.vorbis.com for more information.

The program lame(1) is part of the lame project. See http://lame.sourceforge.net/ for more information.

AUTHOR

The first versions of the scripts have been based on a news article by Tom Kludy.