System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

Examples—Extracting and Creating Audio CDs

The following example shows how to extract the first track from an audio CD and names the file song1.wav.


$ cdrw -x -T wav 1 song1.wav
Extracting audio from track 1...done.

This example describes how to copy a track to an audio CD.


$ cdrw -a song1.wav
Initializing device...done.
Writing track 1...done.
Finalizing (Can take several minutes)...done.