How to Extract an Audio Track on a CD

Use the following procedure to extract an audio track from a CD and copy it to a new CD.

If you don't use the cdrw -T option to specify the audio file type, cdrw uses the filename extension to determine the audio file type. For example, the cdrw command detects that this file is a .wav file.

$ cdrw -x 1 testme.wav

1. Insert a audio CD into the CD-RW device.

2. Extract an audio track.

   % cdrw -x -T audio-type 1 audio-file

   -x	Extracts audio data from an audio CD.
   T audio-type	Identifies the type of audio file to be extracted. Supported audio types are sun, wav, cda, or aur.

3. Copy the track to a new CD.

   $ cdrw -a audio-file

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.