NAME

       himdcli - Command line interface for accessing HiMD Walkman

SYNOPSIS

       himdcli <HiMD path> <command>

DESCRIPTION

       himdcli  is  a command line interface for accessing HiMD Walkman. It uses the libhimd library to read and
       write audio tracks from a HiMD filesystem which can be mounted directly from a physical HiMD Walkman or a
       previously created image file of a HiMD. The mount point of the HiMD filesystem must be  provided  as  an
       argument to himdcli together with the command to be performed.

       Currently  libhimd  and therefore himdcli implements full read access for PCM, ATRAC-3+ and MP3 tracks as
       well as experimental write support for MP3  tracks  (MP3  playback  is  supported  by  second  and  third
       generation of HiMD Walkman only). Non-MP3 tracks are protected by Sony's DRM software stack OpenMG, which
       require  a  sophisticated  calculation  of  keys  and  access control lists. Writing of non-MP3 tracks is
       therefore currently not yet supported.

       In addition to transfer capabilities, himdcli  provides  some  commands  for  debugging  purposes.  These
       include  strings  to  display  all strings found in the track list file (TRKIDX##.HMA), tracks and tracks
       verbose to display (detailed technical) track information, discid to display the disc id  (comparable  to
       the filesystem ID of FAT formatted volumes) which is used by the OpenMG encryption, mp3key to display the
       MP3  encryption  key  for  a  given  MP3  track  on  disc as well as holes to display the holes in a non-
       contiguous ATDATA##.HMA file (a container file where all tracks are stored on a HiMD filesystem).

COMMANDS

       himdcli currently accepts the following commands:

       help   Show command overview list.  strings Dumps all strings found in the tracklist file.

       tracks Lists all tracks on disc.

       tracks verbose
              Lists details of all tracks on disc.

       discid Reads the disc id of the inserted medium.

       holes  Lists all holes on disc.

       mp3key <TRK>
              Shows the MP3 encryption key for track #<TRK>.

       dumptrack <TRK>
              Dumps track #<TRK>.

       dumpmp3 <TRK>
              Dumps MP3 track #<TRK>.

       dumpnonmp3 <TRK>
              Dumps non-MP3 track #<TRK>.

       writemp3 <FILE>
              Writes the MP3 file <FILE> to disc.

       When invoked without any arguments, himdcli outputs a short message with usage information.

SEE ALSO

       netmdcli(1), qhimdtransfer(1)

AUTHOR

       The linux-minidisc project - <https://wiki.physik.fu-berlin.de/linux-minidisc>.

       This manual page was written by John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>.

                                                November 23, 2012                                     HIMDCLI(1)