[wplug] Archiving audio cds

[Eric Cooper]

On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 07:47:16PM -0400, Max Putas wrote:
>    I was wondering if it would be possible to archive audio CD images (dd
>    maybe?) and "mount" (I know that audio cds can't be mounted) them in
>    Linux to be used with CD player applications and rippers. I've asked a
>    few people about this and the general impression that I've gotten is
>    that it isn't possible. Anyone have some thoughts?

Creating those audio CD images *is* ripping, unless I'm
misunderstanding what you want.  Once you've got the audio data off
the CD, you can use FLAC to get about 50% lossless compression.  Then
just host these on a server and any modern player can play them.

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