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NAME
icedax - a sampling utility that dumps CD audio data into wav sound files
SYNOPSIS
icedax [-c chans] [-s] [-m] [-b bits] [-r rate] [-a divider] [-t track[+endtrack]] [-i index] [-o offset]
[-d duration] [-x] [-q] [-w] [-v optlist] [-V] [-Q] [-J] [-L cddbmode] [-R] [-P sectors] [-F] [-G] [-T]
[-e] [-p percentage] [-n sectors] [-l buffers] [-N] [-J] [-H] [-g] [-B] [-D device] [-A auxdevice] [-I
interface] [-O audiotype] [-C input-endianess] [-E output-endianess] [-M count] [-S speed] [-paranoia]
[cddbp-server=servername] [cddbp-port=portnumber] [filename(s) or directories]
DESCRIPTION
icedax stands for InCrEdible Digital Audio eXtractor. It can retrieve audio tracks (CDDA) from CDROM
drives that are capable of reading audio data digitally to the host (see README for a list of drives).
OPTIONS
dev=device
-D device
-device device
uses device as the source for CDDA reading. For example /dev/cdrom or Bus,ID,Lun. The device
specification can also have influence on the selection of the driver interface (eg. on Linux).
See the -I option for details.
The setting of the environment variable CDDA_DEVICE is overridden by this option.
-A auxdevice
-auxdevice auxdevice
uses auxdevice as CDROM drive for ioctl usage.
-I interface
-interface interface
specifies the interface for CDROM access: generic_scsi or (on Linux, and FreeBSD systems)
cooked_ioctl.
Using the cooked_ioctl is not recommended as this makes icedax mainly depend on the audio
extraction quality of the operating system which is usually extremely bad.
-c channels --channels
uses 1 for mono, or 2 for stereo recording, or s for stereo recording with both channels swapped.
-s --stereo
sets to stereo recording.
-m --mono
sets to mono recording.
-x --max
sets maximum (CD) quality.
-b bits --bits-per-sample
sets bits per sample per channel: 8, 12 or 16.
-r rate --rate
sets rate in samples per second. Possible values are listed with the -R option.
-a divider --divider
sets rate to 44100Hz / divider. Possible values are listed with the -R option.
-R --dump-rates
shows a list of all sample rates and their dividers.
-P sectors --set-overlap
sets the initial number of overlap sectors for jitter correction.
-n sectors --sectors-per-request
reads sectors per request.
-l buffers --buffers-in-ring
uses a ring buffer with buffers total.
-t track+endtrack --track
selects the start track and optionally the end track.
-i index --index
selects the start index.
-o offset --offset
starts offset sectors behind start track (one sector equivalents 1/75 seconds).
-O audiotype --output-format
can be wav (for wav files) or aiff (for apple/sgi aiff files) or aifc (for apple/sgi aifc files)
or au or sun (for sun .au PCM files) or cdr or raw (for headerless files to be used for cd
writers).
-C endianess --cdrom-endianess
sets endianess of the input samples to 'little', 'big' or 'guess' to override defaults.
-E endianess --output-endianess
sets endianess of the output samples to 'little' or 'big' to override defaults.
-d duration --duration
sets recording time in seconds or frames. Frames (sectors) are indicated by a 'f' suffix (like
75f for 75 sectors). 0 sets the time for whole track.
-B --bulk --alltracks
copies each track into a separate file.
-w --wait
waits for signal, then start recording.
-F --find-extremes
finds extreme amplitudes in samples.
-G --find-mono
finds if input samples are in mono.
-T --deemphasize
undo the effect of pre-emphasis in the input samples.
-e --echo
copies audio data to sound device e.g. /dev/dsp.
-p percentage --set-pitch
changes pitch of audio data copied to sound device.
-v itemlist --verbose-level
prints verbose information about the CD. Level is a list of comma separated suboptions. Each
suboption controls the type of information to be reported.
┌───────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Suboption │ Description │
├───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ disable │ no information is given, warnings appear however │
├───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ all │ all information is given │
├───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ toc │ show table of contents │
├───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ summary │ show a summary of the recording parameters │
├───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ indices │ determine and display index offsets │
├───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ catalog │ retrieve and display the media catalog number MCN │
├───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ trackid │ retrieve and display all International Standard │
│ │ Recording Codes ISRC │
├───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ sectors │ show the table of contents in start sector │
│ │ notation │
├───────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ titles │ show the table of contents with track titles │
│ │ (when available) │
└───────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-N --no-write
does not write to a file, it just reads (for debugging purposes).
-J --info-only
does not write to a file, it just gives information about the disc.
-L cddb mode --cddb
does a cddbp album- and track title lookup based on the cddb id. The parameter cddb mode defines
how multiple entries shall be handled.
┌───────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Parameter │ Description │
├───────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 0 │ interactive mode. The user selects the │
│ │ entry to use. │
├───────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 1 │ first fit mode. The first entry is taken │
│ │ unconditionally. │
└───────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────┘
cddbp-server=servername
sets the server to be contacted for title lookups.
cddbp-port=portnumber
sets the port number to be used for title lookups.
-H --no-infofile
does not write an info file and a cddb file.
-g --gui
formats the output to be better parsable by gui frontends.
-M count --md5
enables calculation of MD-5 checksum for 'count' bytes from a beginning of a track.
-S speed --speed
sets the cdrom device to one of the selectable speeds for reading.
-q --quiet
quiet operation, no screen output.
-V --verbose-SCSI
enable SCSI command logging to the console. This is mainly used for debugging.
-Q --silent-SCSI
suppress SCSI command error reports to the console. This is mainly used for guis.
-scanbus
Scan all SCSI devices on all SCSI busses and print the inquiry strings. This option may be used to
find SCSI address of the CD/DVD-Recorder on a system. The numbers printed out as labels are
computed by: bus * 100 + target
--devices
Like -scanbus but works in a more native way, respecting the device name specification on the
current operating system. See wodim(1) for details.
-paranoia
use the paranoia library instead of icedax's routines for reading.
-h --help
display version of icedax on standard output.
Defaults depend on the
Makefile and environment variable settings (currently CDDA_DEVICE ).
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
CDDA_DEVICE is used to set the device name. The device naming is compatible with the one used by the
wodim tool.
CDDBP_SERVER
is used for cddbp title lookups when supplied.
CDDBP_PORT
is used for cddbp title lookups when supplied.
RSH If the RSH environment variable is present, the remote connection will not be created via rcmd(3)
but by calling the program pointed to by RSH. Use e.g. RSH=/usr/bin/ssh to create a secure shell
connection.
Note that this forces icedax to create a pipe to the rsh(1) program and disallows icedax to
directly access the network socket to the remote server. This makes it impossible to set up
performance parameters and slows down the connection compared to a root initiated rcmd(3)
connection.
RSCSI If the RSCSI environment variable is present, the remote SCSI server will not be the program
/opt/schily/sbin/rscsi but the program pointed to by RSCSI. Note that the remote SCSI server
program name will be ignored if you log in using an account that has been created with a remote
SCSI server program as login shell.
RETURN VALUES
icedax uses the following exit codes to indicate various degrees of success:
┌──────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Exitcode │ Description │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 0 │ no errors encountered, successful operation. │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 1 │ usage or syntax error. icedax got inconsistent arguments. │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 2 │ permission (un)set errors. permission changes failed. │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 3 │ read errors on the cdrom/burner device encountered. │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 4 │ write errors while writing one of the output files │
│ │ encountered. │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 5 │ errors with soundcard handling (initialization/write). │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 6 │ errors with stat() system call on the read device (cooked │
│ │ ioctl). │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 7 │ pipe communication errors encountered (in forked mode). │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 8 │ signal handler installation errors encountered. │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 9 │ allocation of shared memory failed (in forked mode). │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 10 │ dynamic heap memory allocation failed. │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 11 │ errors on the audio cd medium encountered. │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 12 │ device open error in ioctl handling detected. │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 13 │ race condition in ioctl interface handling detected. │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 14 │ error in ioctl() operation encountered. │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 15 │ internal error encountered. Please report back!!! │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 16 │ error in semaphore operation encountered (install / │
│ │ request). │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 17 │ could not get the scsi transfer buffer. │
├──────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 18 │ could not create pipes for process communication (in │
│ │ forked mode). │
└──────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
DISCUSSION
icedax is able to read parts of an audio CD or multimedia CDROM (containing audio parts) directly
digitally. These parts can be written to a file, a pipe, or to a sound device.
icedax stands for CDDA to WAV (where CDDA stands for compact disc digital audio and WAV is a sound sample
format introduced by MS Windows). It allows copying CDDA audio data from the CDROM drive into a file in
WAV or other formats.
The latest versions try to get higher real-time scheduling priorities to ensure smooth (uninterrupted)
operation. These priorities are available for super users and are higher than those of 'normal'
processes. Thus delays are minimized.
If your CDROM is on device DEV and it is loaded with an audio CD, you may simply invoke icedax dev=DEV
and it will create the sound file audio.wav recording the whole track beginning with track 1 in stereo at
16 bit at 44100 Hz sample rate, if your file system has enough space free. Otherwise recording time will
be limited. For details see files README and README.INSTALL
HINTS ON OPTIONS
Options
Most of the options are used to control the format of the WAV file. In the following text all of
them are described.
Select Device
-D device selects the CDROM drive device to be used. The specifier given should correspond to the
selected interface (see below). CHANGE! For the cooked_ioctl interface this is the cdrom device
descriptor as before. The SCSI devices used with the generic SCSI interface however are now
addressed with their SCSI-Bus, SCSI-Id, and SCSI-Lun instead of the generic SCSI device
descriptor!!! One example for a SCSI CDROM drive on bus 0 with SCSI ID 3 and lun 0 is -D0,3,0.
Select Auxiliary device
-A auxdevice is necessary for CD-Extra handling. For Non-SCSI-CDROM drives this is the same device
as given by -D (see above). For SCSI-CDROM drives it is the CDROM drive (SCSI) device (i.e.
/dev/sr0 ) corresponding to the SCSI device (i.e. 0,3,0 ). It has to match the device used for
sampling.
Select Interface
-I interface selects the CDROM drive interface. For SCSI drives use generic_scsi (cooked_ioctl may
not yet be available for all devices): generic_scsi and cooked_ioctl. The first uses the generic
SCSI interface, the latter uses the ioctl of the CDROM driver. The latter variant works only when
the kernel driver supports CDDA reading. This entry has to match the selected CDROM device (see
above).
Enable echo to soundcard
-e copies audio data to the sound card while recording, so you hear it nearly simultaneously. The
soundcard gets the same data that is recorded. This is time critical, so it works best with the -q
option. To use icedax as a pseudo CD player without recording in a file you could use icedax -q
-e -t2 -d0 -N to play the whole second track. This feature reduces the recording speed to at most
onefold speed. You cannot make better recordings than your sound card can play (since the same
data is used).
Change pitch of echoed audio
-p percentage changes the pitch of all audio echoed to a sound card. Only the copy to the
soundcard is affected, the recorded audio samples in a file remain the same. Normal pitch, which
is the default, is given by 100%. Lower percentages correspond to lower pitches, i.e. -p 50
transposes the audio output one octave lower. See also the script pitchplay as an example. This
option was contributed by Raul Sobon.
Select mono or stereo recording
-m or -c 1 selects mono recording (both stereo channels are mixed), -s or -c 2 or -c s selects
stereo recording. Parameter s will swap both sound channels.
Select maximum quality
-x will set stereo, 16 bits per sample at 44.1 KHz (full CD quality). Note that other format
options given later can change this setting.
Select sample quality
-b 8 specifies 8 bit (1 Byte) for each sample in each channel; -b 12 specifies 12 bit (2 Byte) for
each sample in each channel; -b 16 specifies 16 bit (2 Byte) for each sample in each channel
(Ensure that your sample player or sound card is capable of playing 12-bit or 16-bit samples).
Selecting 12 or 16 bits doubles file size. 12-bit samples are aligned to 16-bit samples, so they
waste some disk space.
Select sample rate
-r samplerate selects a sample rate. samplerate can be in a range between 44100 and 900. Option
-R lists all available rates.
Select sample rate divider
-a divider selects a sample rate divider. divider can be minimally 1 and maximally 50.5 and
everything between in steps of 0.5. Option -R lists all available rates.
To make the sound smoother at lower sampling rates, icedax sums over n samples (where n is the
specific dividend). So for 22050 Hertz output we have to sum over 2 samples, for 900 Hertz we have
to sum over 49 samples. This cancels higher frequencies. Standard sector size of an audio CD
(ignoring additional information) is 2352 Bytes. In order to finish summing for an output sample
at sector boundaries the rates above have to be chosen. Arbitrary sampling rates in high quality
would require some interpolation scheme, which needs much more sophisticated programming.
List a table of all sampling rates
-R shows a list of all sample rates and their dividers. Dividers can range from 1 to 50.5 in steps
of 0.5.
Select start track and optionally end track
-t n+m selects n as the start track and optionally m as the last track of a range to be recorded.
These tracks must be from the table of contents. This sets the track where recording begins.
Recording can advance through the following tracks as well (limited by the optional end track or
otherwise depending on recording time). Whether one file or different files are then created
depends on the -B option (see below).
Select start index
-i n selects the index to start recording with. Indices other than 1 will invoke the index
scanner, which will take some time to find the correct start position. An offset may be given
additionally (see below).
Set recording time
-d n sets recording time to n seconds or set recording time for whole track if n is zero. In
order to specify the duration in frames (sectors) also, the argument can have an appended 'f'.
Then the numerical argument is to be taken as frames (sectors) rather than seconds. Please note
that if track ranges are being used they define the recording time as well thus overriding any -d
option specified times.
Recording time is defined as the time the generated sample will play (at the defined sample rate).
Since it's related to the amount of generated samples, it's not the time of the sampling process
itself (which can be less or more). It's neither strictly coupled with the time information on
the audio CD (shown by your hifi CD player). Differences can occur by the usage of the -o option
(see below). Notice that recording time will be shortened, unless enough disk space exists.
Recording can be aborted at anytime by pressing the break character (signal SIGQUIT).
.IP "Record all tracks of a complete audio CD in separate files" -B copies each track into a
separate file. A base name can be given. File names have an appended track number and an extension
corresponding to the audio format. To record all audio tracks of a CD, use a sufficient high
duration (i.e. -d99999).
Set start sector offset
-o sectors increments start sector of the track by sectors. By this option you are able to skip a
certain amount at the beginning of a track so you can pick exactly the part you want. Each sector
runs for 1/75 seconds, so you have very fine control. If your offset is so high that it would not
fit into the current track, a warning message is issued and the offset is ignored. Recording time
is not reduced. (To skip introductory quiet passages automagically, use the -w option see below.)
Wait for signal option
-w Turning on this option will suppress all silent output at startup, reducing possibly file size.
icedax will watch for any signal in the output signal and switches on writing to file.
Find extreme samples
-F Turning on this option will display the most negative and the most positive sample value found
during recording for both channels. This can be useful for readjusting the volume. The values
shown are not reset at track boundaries, they cover the complete sampling process. They are taken
from the original samples and have the same format (i.e. they are independent of the selected
output format).
Find if input samples are in mono
-G If this option is given, input samples for both channels will be compared. At the end of the
program the result is printed. Differences in the channels indicate stereo, otherwise when both
channels are equal it will indicate mono.
Undo the pre-emphasis in the input samples
-T Some older audio CDs are recorded with a modified frequency response called pre-emphasis. This
is found mostly in classical recordings. The correction can be seen in the flags of the Table Of
Contents often. But there are recordings, that show this setting only in the subchannels. If this
option is given, the index scanner will be started, which reads the q-subchannel of each track. If
pre-emphasis is indicated in the q-subchannel of a track, but not in the TOC, pre-emphasis will be
assumed to be present, and subsequently a reverse filtering is done for this track before the
samples are written into the audio file.
Set audio format
-O audiotype can be wav (for wav files) or au or sun (for sun PCM files) or cdr or raw (for
headerless files to be used for cd writers). All file samples are coded in linear pulse code
modulation (as done in the audio compact disc format). This holds for all audio formats. Wav
files are compatible to Wind*ws sound files, they have lsb,msb byte order as being used on the
audio cd. The default filename extension is '.wav'. Sun type files are not like the older common
logarithmically coded .au files, but instead as mentioned above linear PCM is used. The byte order
is msb,lsb to be compatible. The default filename extension is '.au'. The AIFF and the newer
variant AIFC from the Apple/SGI world store their samples in bigendian format (msb,lsb). In AIFC
no compression is used. Finally the easiest 'format', the cdr aka raw format. It is done per
default in msb,lsb byte order to satisfy the order wanted by most cd writers. Since there is no
header information in this format, the sample parameters can only be identified by playing the
samples on a soundcard or similar. The default filename extension is '.cdr' or '.raw'.
Select cdrom drive reading speed
-S speed allows to switch the cdrom drive to a certain level of speed in order to reduce read
errors. The argument is transfered verbatim to the drive. Details depend very much on the cdrom
drives. An argument of 0 for example is often the default speed of the drive, a value of 1 often
selects single speed.
Enable MD5 checksums
-M count enables calculation of MD-5 checksum for 'count' bytes from the beginning of a track.
This was introduced for quick comparisons of tracks.
Use Monty's libparanoia for reading of sectors
-paranoia selects an alternate way of extracting audio sectors. Monty's library is used with the
following default options:
PARANOIA_MODE_FULL, but without PARANOIA_MODE_NEVERSKIP
for details see Monty's libparanoia documentation. In this case the option -P has no effect.
Do linear or overlapping reading of sectors
(This applies unless option -paranoia is used.) -P sectors sets the given number of sectors for
initial overlap sampling for jitter correction. Two cases are to be distinguished. For nonzero
values, some sectors are read twice to enable icedax's jitter correction. If an argument of zero
is given, no overlap sampling will be used. For nonzero overlap sectors icedax dynamically
adjusts the setting during sampling (like cdparanoia does). If no match can be found, icedax
retries the read with an increased overlap. If the amount of jitter is lower than the current
overlapped samples, icedax reduces the overlap setting, resulting in a higher reading speed. The
argument given has to be lower than the total number of sectors per request (see option -n below).
Icedax will check this setting and issues a error message otherwise. The case of zero sectors is
nice on low load situations or errorfree (perfect) cdrom drives and perfect (not scratched) audio
cds.
Set the transfer size
-n sectors will set the transfer size to the specified sectors per request.
Set number of ring buffer elements
-l buffers will allocate the specified number of ring buffer elements.
Set endianess of input samples
-C endianess will override the default settings of the input format. Endianess can be set
explicitly to "little" or "big" or to the automatic endianess detection based on voting with
"guess".
Set endianess of output samples
-E endianess (endianess can be "little" or "big") will override the default settings of the
output format.
Verbose option
-v itemlist prints more information. A list allows selection of different information items.
disable keeps quiet
toc displays the table of contents
summary displays a summary of recording parameters
indices invokes the index scanner and displays start positions of indices
catalog retrieves and displays a media catalog number
trackid retrieves and displays international standard recording codes
sectors displays track start positions in absolute sector notation
To combine several requests just list the suboptions separated with commas.
The table of contents
The display will show the table of contents with number of tracks and total time (displayed in
mm:ss.hh format, mm=minutes, ss=seconds, hh=rounded 1/100 seconds). The following list displays
track number and track time for each entry. The summary gives a line per track describing the
type of the track.
track preemphasis copypermitted tracktype chans
The track column holds the track number. preemphasis shows if that track has been given a non
linear frequency response. NOTE: You can undo this effect with the -T option. copy-permitted
indicates if this track is allowed to copy. tracktype can be data or audio. On multimedia CDs
(except hidden track CDs) both of them should be present. channels is defined for audio tracks
only. There can be two or four channels.
No file output
-N this debugging option switches off writing to a file.
No infofile generation
-H this option switches off creation of an info file and a cddb file.
Generation of simple output for gui frontends
-g this option switches on simple line formatting, which is needed to support gui frontends (like
xcd-roast).
Verbose SCSI logging
-V this option switches on logging of SCSI commands. This will produce a lot of output (when SCSI
devices are being used). This is needed for debugging purposes. The format is the same as being
used with the cdrecord program from Joerg Schilling or the wodim tool. See there for details.
Quiet option
-q suppresses all screen output except error messages. That reduces cpu time resources.
Just show information option
-J does not write a file, it only prints information about the disc (depending on the -v option).
This is just for information purposes.
CDDBP support
Lookup album and track titles option
-L cddbp mode Icedax tries to retrieve performer, album-, and track titles from a cddbp server.
The default server right now is 'freedb.freedb.org'. It is planned to have more control over the
server handling later. The parameter defines how multiple entries are handled:
0 interactive mode, the user chooses one of the entries.
1 take the first entry without asking.
Set server for title lookups
cddbp-server servername When using -L or --cddb, the server being contacted can be set with this
option.
Set portnumber for title lookups
cddbp-port portnumber When using -L or --cddb, the server port being contacted can be set with
this option.
HINTS ON USAGE
Don't create samples you cannot read. First check your sample player software and sound card hardware. I
experienced problems with very low sample rates (stereo <= 1575 Hz, mono <= 3675 Hz) when trying to play
them with standard WAV players for sound blaster (maybe they are not legal in WAV format). Most CD-
Writers insist on audio samples in a bigendian format. Now icedax supports the -E endianess option to
control the endianess of the written samples.
If your hardware is fast enough to run icedax uninterrupted and your CD drive is one of the 'perfect'
ones, you will gain speed when switching all overlap sampling off with the -P 0 option. Further fine
tuning can be done with the -n sectors option. You can specify how much sectors should be requested in
one go.
Icedax supports pipes now. Use a filename of - to let icedax output its samples to standard output.
Conversion to other sound formats can be done using the sox program package (although the use of sox -x
to change the byte order of samples should be no more necessary; see option -E to change the output
byteorder).
If you want to sample more than one track into different files in one run, this is currently possible
with the -B option. When recording time exceeds the track limit a new file will be opened for the next
track.
FILES
Icedax can generate a lot of files for various purposes.
Audio files:
There are audio files containing samples with default extensions These files are not generated when
option (-N) is given. Multiple files may be written when the bulk copy option (-B) is used. Individual
file names can be given as arguments. If the number of file names given is sufficient to cover all
included audio tracks, the file names will be used verbatim. Otherwise, if there are less file names
than files needed to write the included tracks, the part of the file name before the extension is
extended with '_dd' where dd represents the current track number.
Cddb and Cdindex files:
If icedax detects cd-extra or cd-text (album/track) title information, then .cddb and .cdindex files are
generated unless suppressed by the option -H. They contain suitable formatted entries for submission to
audio cd track title databases in the internet. The CDINDEX and CDDB(tm) systems are currently supported.
For more information please visit www.musicbrainz.org and www.freedb.com.
Inf files:
The inf files are describing the sample files and the part from the audio cd, it was taken from. They are
a means to transfer information to a cd burning program like wodim. For example, if the original audio cd
had pre-emphasis enabled, and icedax -T did remove the pre-emphasis, then the inf file has pre-emphasis
not set (since the audio file does not have it anymore), while the .cddb and the .cdindex have pre-
emphasis set as the original does.
WARNING
IMPORTANT: it is prohibited to sell copies of copyrighted material by noncopyright holders. This program
may not be used to circumvent copyrights. The user acknowledges this constraint when using the software.
BUGS
Generation of md5 checksums is currently broken.
Performance may not be optimal on slower systems.
The index scanner may give timeouts.
The resampling (rate conversion code) uses polynomial interpolation, which is not optimal.
Icedax should use threads.
Icedax currently cannot sample hidden audio tracks (track 1 index 0).
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks goto Project MODE (http://www.mode.net/) and Fraunhofer Institut fuer integrierte Schaltungen
(FhG-IIS) (http://www.iis.fhg.de/) for financial support. Plextor Europe and Ricoh Japan provided cdrom
disk drives and cd burners which helped a lot to develop this software. Rammi has helped a lot with the
debugging and showed a lot of stamina when hearing 100 times the first 16 seconds of the first track of
the Krupps CD. Libparanoia contributed by Monty (Christopher Montgomery) xiphmont@mit.edu.
AUTHOR
Heiko Eissfeldt heiko@colossus.escape.de
This manpage describes the program implementation of icedax as shipped by the cdrkit distribution. See
http://alioth.debian.org/projects/debburn/ for details. It is a spinoff from the original program
cdda2wav as distributed in the cdrtools package [1]. However, the cdrtools developers are not involved in
the development of this spinoff and therefore shall not be made responsible for any problem caused by it.
Do not try to get support for this program by contacting the original authors.
If you have support questions, send them to
debburn-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org
If you have definitely found a bug, send a mail to this list or to
submit@bugs.debian.org
writing at least a short description into the Subject and "Package: cdrkit" into the first line of the
mail body.
DATE
26 Sep 2006
SOURCES
[1] Cdrtools 2.01.01a08 from May 2006, http://cdrecord.berlios.de
ICEDAX(1)