RFC - Archiving Music CDs for Backup Purposes

[Amichai Rotman]

Hello,

I'd like to make a backup of my 200 and some music CDs. My idea is to use
the 'dd' command to convert each of them to an ISO file I could later burn
to an empty media (CD-R) and get an exact copy - in case the original gets
unusable...

My questions:

1. Is it the right way to go?
2. Will I be able to "play" the CD in Amarok (or any other audio player, for
that matter)?
3. If this isn't the right idea - can you give me some others?

My main goal is to store them in digital format that is easy to manage and
reproduce in case the original CD gets unusable. Disk space is also an
issue. My original idea was to convert them all to FLAC format - but that's
about 250 MB per CD...

Thanks!

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Amichai Rotman

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