$ mkdir /tmp/image
(populate /tmp/image)
- $ mkisofs -o /tmp/image.iso /tmp/image
- $ sudo cdrecord -eject dev=/dev/cdrom /tmp/image.iso
+ $ mkisofs -o /tmp/image.iso /tmp/image
+ $ sudo cdrecord -eject dev=/dev/cdrom /tmp/image.iso
+
+[ISO-9660][] has fairly strict filename restrictions, see `-iso-level`
+in `mkisofs(8)` or [Wikipedia][] for details.
+
+To rip an ISO from a CD, you can use
+
+ $ sudo readcd dev=/dev/cdrom f=/tmp/image.iso
+
+You can mount an ISO using the `loop` option
+
+ $ sudo mount -o loop image.iso /mnt/image
+
+To burn an audio CD (for old-school players that don't understand
+filesystems), try something like:
+
+ $ cdrecord -v speed=1 dev=/dev/cdrom -eject -dao -audio -pad *.wav
+
+To rip audio CDs, I usually use [abcde][].
+
+ $ abcde -o flac
+
+If you don't like cdrtools, there is also the fork [cdrkit][] which
+dates back to a 2006 license dispute between cdrtools author Jörg
+Schilling and the folks at Debian.
[cdrtools]: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/cdrecord.html
[Gentoo tutorial]: http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/HOWTO_ATAPI_CD_Burning
+[ISO-9660]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9660
+[Wikipedia]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9660#File_and_directory_name_restrictions
+[abcde]: http://code.google.com/p/abcde/
+[cdrkit]: http://www.cdrkit.org/
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