Rip entire audio CD to a single file ("bin" format), playable by mplayer. Good for classical music, jazz, and other music that is best listened to "whole".

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Rip entire audio CD to a single file ("bin" format), playable by mplayer. 
Good for classical music, jazz, and other music that is best listened to "whole". 

On Linux: easy to do.
On M-Windows: takes time to *find* the binary tools or compile them yourself.  

Tools to use:
dd 
toc2cue (comes with cdrdao) 
bchunk 
cdrdao 
mplayer

In the instructions below, parameters that you must supply are prefixed with ? (a question mark).

Insert the audio cd into the CD/DVD drive.

Determine the ID of the CD/DVD drive:
cdrdao disk-info
Read the output from the above command carefully.

Use cdrdao to create the BIN file:
cdrdao read-cd --device ?ID --read-raw --datafile ?NAME.bin ?NAME.toc.txt

Use dd to modify the BIN file (to enable mplayer to play it):
dd conv=swab if=?FILE.bin of=?NEWFILE.bin 

Use mplayer to play the BIN file: 
mplayer -demuxer rawaudio ?NEWFILE.bin

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OTHER THINGS THAT YOU CAN DO
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Use cdrdao to burn the BIN: 
cdrdao write --device ?ID --swap ?TOCfile 


Convert the TOC to a CUE: 
toc2cue ?TOCfile ?CUEfile 

Use bchunk to rip the BIN to WAV (-w): 
bchunk -v -w BINfile CUEfile BASENAME