I cannot rip my shiny new CD [SOLVED]

deltaecho · 2009-03-07 02:13:45

I just purchased a new CD (4th Avenue Jones, "Stereo: The Evolution of Hiprocksoul"), and it's pretty much awesome!!!

However, I cannot rip it to my hard drive. VLC plays the CD fine, but hal couldn't mount it, so I mounted it manually and tried to rip it with K3b, which didn't work ... opening the CD in my file manager revealed it contained 5 files (and 2 directories): the standard AutoRun.inf, 4thAveJones.exe, 2 .mov files, and a QuickTime installation file. Never having encountered this before, and assuming the music files are somehow compiled into the .exe, is there any way I may extract them, such as with VLC?

(03/06/2009-1) Well, running 4thAveJones.exe with Wine didn't do anything but allow me to watch the 2 .mov videos, which I could do already. Does anybody have an idea where the music files are kept? I'm currently rummaging through the strings of the .exe binary trying to find anything useful, but nothing's turned up yet.

Last edited by deltaecho (2009-03-07 05:34:29)

iBertus · 2009-03-07 03:32:31

The CD probably has multiple tracks. One contains data and the other audio. I'm not sure how you would tell k3b to rip the audio track and not the data one.

eldragon · 2009-03-07 04:34:51

does this help?

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.p … 952.0;wap2

skottish · 2009-03-07 04:41:53

Search for 'VLC extract audio' in your favorite search engine.

deltaecho · 2009-03-07 05:02:14

Thanks @skottish, I'm experimenting with VLC's ripping/recording features now -- I'll post an update as soon as It's finished. I'll also check more into your link, @eldragon, and see if I can dig up the separate audio tracks @iBertus' mentioned.

deltaecho · 2009-03-07 05:33:28

Oh man -- I feel like such a ditz ... running `cdparanoia -Q' from a terminal showed all the tracks on the CD, so I wondered why K3b was having such a hard time locating the audio tracks. After reopening the application, I clicked the CD's entry in the tree menu, and was greeted with a dialog offering 2 choices: "Mound CD" or "Show Audio Tracks" (I somehow completely missed the second one, probably assuming it was a cancel button). Apparently, the data portion of a CD is typically kept separate from its audio tracks, which I didn't know before, so I reckon this little excursion wasn't worthless, but I still think it's about time for me to go to bed

Anyway, I've ripped the tracks and am happily Amarokin' along (now back to C++)!

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#1 2009-03-07 02:13:45

I cannot rip my shiny new CD [SOLVED]

#2 2009-03-07 03:32:31

Re: I cannot rip my shiny new CD [SOLVED]

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