Copying audio CD / The Missing Ubuntu Guide

[david]

On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 23:57, Brian Astill wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 14:36 -0500, Michael R Head wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 19:24 +0000, Ben Edwards wrote:
> > > I guess this donr help:
> > > 
> > > ben at red ~ $ dd if=/dev/cdrom of=image.iso bs=1024k
> > > dd: reading `/dev/cdrom': Input/output error
> > > 0+0 records in
> > > 0+0 records out
> > > 0 bytes transferred in 0.027925 seconds (0 bytes/sec)
> > > 
> > > Is it that it is a Audio CD.  I tried xcdroast but it did not find my
> > > CD Burner;(
> > 
> > Try graveman? http://www.nongnu.org/graveman/main.html#download
> > 
> Or (if you run KDE) k3b http://www.k3b.org/
> Some, though not all of these KDE apps will run under Gnome provided you
> have the requisite qt version (QT >= 3.1) but I can't tell you if k3b
> will work for your setup.
> 
> --
> Brian
> 

The easiest and most reliable way to create audio cd's is to use grip to
rip the disk and then use K3b to write it.
You just have to remember two things. Set grip to "rip only" and in k3b
I have always seem to have to add the tracks one by one to get them in
the right order or k3b seems to jumble them up.
I've not seen k3b successfully copy disk to disk and it always seems to
hang on the ripping stage of audio cd's.

David