[wplug] Archiving audio cds

[Diana A. Clarion]

I think Max was wanting to get an image of the entire audio CD, sort of
analogous to the ISO-9660 image of a data CD.

DAC

On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 21:31 -0400, Eric Cooper wrote:
> 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.
>