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I'm trying to get some lightly scratched albums (audio CDs) onto my computer via ddrescue. I ran the program on one disc with one track that has skipping problems, and it rescued 0%. The .iso was unmountable.

I tried safecopy (ran for 3 days) and also ended up with an unmountable iso.

I've tried a couple of different command line options, to no avail. Sudo and non-sudo.

ddrescue -f -n /dev/sr0 /path/to/iso.iso
ddrescue -n -b 2048 
ddrescue -f -d -R --force

I've tried ddrescue on another CD without any playback issues and still got 0% recovered.

What gives?

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ddrescue can’t read audio tracks, you’ll need to use another tool to read audio CDs:

  • cdrdao (which will allow you to keep inter-track information, useful e.g. for gapless audio CDs)
  • CDDA Paranoia
  • morituri, which supports AccurateRip checks but is getting harder to run on current distributions

Most desktop environments also include GUI tools which can rip audio CDs, e.g. Sound Juicer, and there also are DE-agnostic GUI rippers such as Asunder.

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