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Audio CD Preservation

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*Detailed description*

A large collection of, predominantly audio, CDs needs preserving. The CD's initially need stabilising onto magnetic storage medium to prevent preservation issues relating to disc-rot. The content of these disc images then needs to be extracted and catalogued. The following discusses a number of tools to tackle the first part - disc stabilisation.

*{+}Imaging Tools{+}*

The following two tools provided the ability to create a diskc image (.bin/.iso with .cue track listings file) of an audio CD with mechanisms to extract tracks to WAV files.

*{_}cdrdao (Linux)_*
-* From what I can gather from the above link, the free version can be used anywhere, even for commercial purposes.

*_.cue file - metadata{_}*
ISOBuster generates a .iso/.cue file pair as a audio CD disc image. Here is the contents of the .cue file generated for a 4-track audio CD (note there is no descriptive metadata about the tracks or the disc itself):
{code}
FILE "DiscMalta.iso" BINARY

REM ORIGINAL MEDIA-TYPE: CD

  REM SESSION 01        ; Not supported by other applications (*)
    TRACK 01 AUDIO
      INDEX 01 00:00:00
      REM MSF: 00:00:00 = LBA: 0
    TRACK 02 AUDIO
      INDEX 01 17:19:60
      REM MSF: 17:19:60 = LBA: 77985
    TRACK 03 AUDIO
      INDEX 01 31:40:65
      REM MSF: 31:40:65 = LBA: 142565
    TRACK 04 AUDIO
      INDEX 01 44:30:55
      REM MSF: 44:30:55 = LBA: 200305

REM (*) SESSION directives are unfortunately not properly supported
REM     'out there'.  IsoBuster however supports them !
{code}

*{+}Other Imaging Tools{+}*

_A list of hyperlinks to the Issues to which this provides a Solution._

___[SPR:M3P CD Collection]_


*Tool/code link*
_A link to code on Git hub or a corresponding_ _[myExperiment|http://www.myexperiment.org/]_ _if applicable_