cdda2ogg(1) General Commands Manual cdda2ogg(1)

cdda2ogg, cdda2mp3 - extract CD audio tracks and encode them

cdda2ogg [ options ][ dev=device ] [file prefix] [ogg opts]

cdda2mp3 [ options ][ dev=device ] [file prefix] [lame opts]

cdda2ogg is a script that uses the cdda2wav command to extract all audio tracks with the cdda2wav command and encode them using the oggenc(1) Ogg Vorbis encoder.

cdda2mp3 is a script that uses the cdda2wav command to extract all audio tracks with the cdda2wav command and encode them using the lame(1) MP3 encoder.

There is no CDDB support yet.

print a short online usage message and exit.
The device to read the data from. If there is only one CD-ROM drive in the system, the dev= option may be omitted. For possible values of the device parameter, see the cdrecord(1) man page.
-*
Any other option beginning with a '-' sign is passed to the cdda2wav program.

Any other option past the file prefix argument and beginning with a '-' sign is passed to the encoder program.

The following environment variables may be used to change the behavior of the cdda2ogg and the cdda2mp3 command:

Defines the command to extract WAV data from the CD. The default value is cdda2wav.
Defines the options passed to the CDDA program while extracting from the CD. The default value is -H -q.
The encoder program used to compress the audio data. The default value is oggenc for cdda2ogg and lame for cdda2mp3.
Options passed to the encoder program. The default is empty.
The base filename part of the resulting audio files. The default file name is $TRACK-$FILEPREFIX.ogg for cdda2ogg and $TRACK-$FILEPREFIX.mp3 for cdda2mp3 if no file prefix argument was given on the command line.

If the following files are present, then the scripts source them to set up local defaults:

/etc/default/cdda2ogg
To set up default values for cdda2ogg.
/etc/default/cdda2mp3
To set up default values for cdda2mp3.

The content may be set up to modify environment variables or to set up local defaults.

cdda2wav(1), cdrecord(1), oggenc(1), lame(1).

If a CD contains a hidden audio track before track 1, a file name with track number 00 is created with the content of the hidden track.

The program oggenc(1) is part of the vorbis-tools project See http://www.vorbis.com for more information.

The program lame(1) is part of the lame project. See http://lame.sourceforge.net/ for more information.

The first versions of the scripts have been based on a news article by Tom Kludy.

Version 3.0