Re: Hidden "Track 0"

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Jason Noble wrote:

> Is there any way to Rip a track that starts before Track 1?

> To play this track on a regular cd player, I have to hold the rewind
> button at the start of track 1, and wait for the cd to rewind back 5
> minutes.

The vtracks patch can do this:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=572559&group_id=3714&atid=303714


Another option is to use cdparanoia or possibly cdda2wav from the command 
line.

To use cdparanoia for example, it looks like you'd want to do

   cdparanoia -Q

to get the table of contents, which might give a hint as to where the 
hidden track is.

For example, They Might Be Giants's Factory Showroom has a hidden track 
like that.  Its table of contents starts like this:

   track        length               begin        copy pre ch
   ===========================================================
     1.    17335 [03:51.10]     4575 [01:01.00]    no   no  2
     2.    13025 [02:53.50]    21910 [04:52.10]    no   no  2

Which suggests that the hidden track runs from frame 0 through frame 4574 
and that

   cdparanoia '[.0],[.4574]' tbtb.wav

might be a reasonable command line to start with.


-- 
Paul Cassella


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