Ripping scratched audio CDs in Linux

Filed under: Ajax — lars @ 04:36:00 pm

I recently tried to rip some old audio CDs that had quite a few scratches. Lately I've been doing my CD-ripping using Asunder on Ubuntu. It works well enough, but I found for the scratched CDs the progress is horribly slow, to the point where it seems like it would take days to rip a CD.

I tried a couple of recommended options to find a fast way just to 'skip' the unreadable blocks, like ddrescue and safecopy, however these either errored or were just as slow. But I had some success with a command-line tool called cdda2wav (www.cdda2wav.de).

Here's my usage:

sudo cdda2wav -vall -D /dev/sr0 speed=4 cddb=0 -B

Comments

  • Markismus
    Thanks! Works for me, too.
    I have a nice setup to rip to FLAC using whipper, but it kept stumbling on the scratched audiobooks for the kiddies from the library.

    Comment by Markismus [Visitor] — 09/04/17 @ 18:03

  • Markismus
    Looking for a frontend I found Grip. Works very well. Allows you to specify the commandline of cdda2wav (or other rippers) and allows encoding to other audioformats. All in all a very nice solution for scratchy disks

    Comment by Markismus [Visitor] — 09/04/17 @ 21:11

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