cdrdao (''“ CD recorder disc-at-once”'') is a

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application for authoring and ripping of audio and data

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s. It is licensed under GPL-2.0 or Later. The application is available for several operating systems, including

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, and

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, and was reported to work on other operating

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-based operating systems. cdrdao runs from command line and has no

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. Several programs for authoring and writing CDs depend on cdrdao and provide a GUI, such as Brasero, K3b. cdrdao powers Brasero, the default CD application for the

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until around 2013.

Features

Cdrdao is capable of reading and writing audio, data, and mixed audio/data discs. It records audio or data

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s in disk-at-once mode based on a textual description of the CD contents, known as a TOC (table of contents) file that can be created and customized inside a

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. When reading CDs, cdrdao creates a binary dump of the data inside a BIN file and uses the TOC file to index it. The TOC file can be converted to a CUE file using the included toc2cue command. Using the TOC file, audio files can be burned to a disc in WAV format. cdrdao can copy discs, blank discs, create disc image files, and check

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information. A key feature of cdrdao is its full control over the layout of the disc and its tracks. This gives it the ability to create non-standard gaps between audio tracks that are different than two seconds in length and contain non-zero audio data. It can also create hidden tracks and intro tracks.

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* Free optical disc authoring software Free software programmed in C++ Console CD ripping software Linux CD ripping software Software using the GNU General Public License {{multimedia-software-stub