CDRDAO(1)
CDRDAO(1)
NAME
cdrdao − reads and writes CDs in disc-at-once mode
SYNOPSIS
cdrdao
{show-toc|read-toc|read-cd|read-cddb|show-data|read-test|disk-info|msinfo|unlock|simu-
late|write|copy|blank} [--device device] [--source-device device] [--driver driver-id] [--source-driver
driver-id] [--simulate] [--speed writing-speed] [--blank-mode mode] [--datafile file] [--read-raw]
[--read-subchan [--no-mode2-mixed] mode] [--tao-source] [--tao-source-adjust link-blocks] [--fast-toc]
[--buffers buffer-count] [--multi] [--overburn] [--eject] [--swap] [--session] [--force] [--reload] [--keep-
image] [--on-the-fly] [--paranoia-mode mode] [--with-cddb] [--cddb-servers server-list] [--cddb-time-
out timeout] [--cddb-directory directory] [--tmpdir directory] [--keep] [--save] [-n] [-v verbose-level]
toc-file
DESCRIPTION
cdrdao creates audio and data CD-Rs in disk-at-once (DAO) mode driven by a description file called toc-
file. In DAO mode it is possible to create non standard track pre-gaps that have other lengths than 2 sec-
onds and contain nonzero audio data. This is for example useful to divide live recordings into tracks where
2 second gaps would be kind of irritating.
Instead of a toc-file a cue file (used by a famous DOS/Windows mastering tool) may be used. See the CUE
FILES section for more details.
COMMANDS
The first argument must be one of the following commands:
show-toc
Print out a summary about what will be written to the CD-R.
read-toc
Analyze each track of the inserted CD and create a toc-file that can be used to make a more or less
exact copy of the CD. This command does not read out the audio or data tracks, use read-cd for
this purpose.
You can specify a filename for the data file via the −-datafile option.
read-cd
Copies all tracks of the inserted CD to an image file and creates a corresponding toc-file. The
name of the image file defaults to "data.bin" if no --datafile option is given.
read-cddb
Tries to retrieve title and artist data from a CDDB server for the CD represented by the given toc-
file. T