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 |
Insert a audio CD into the CD-RW device.
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. |
Copy the track to a new CD.
$ cdrw -a audio-file |
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. |