How to rip tracks from audio CDs that don't have CDA files..?

[jlee]

I'm trying to make a CD with several songs from several different CDs, and some are data/audio and don't have any *.cda files on them, so Nero is not able to find the audio tracks.

Winamp can't play those CDs either, which is quite annoying..what's the easiest way to do this?

Edit: CDEx can read them..so I'm just going to rip to wav and write to a CD. Thanks all 🙂

 

[Gurck]

Are they dual-disc format?

 

[DaveSimmons]

You mean game CDs? The data may be in _any_ format including ones used only in games (like bink for cutscenes).

Even if the data is a standard format like MP3 it may be embedded in an archive to be uncompressed when you install the CD. And then it might be standard audio but mashed together into one big nonstandard file.

In short, it varies.

 

[jlee]

It's an audio CD that will play in a standard CD player, but all I see on the disc is an 'inf' file and an exe (autoexec flash file) -- says "HDCD" on the CD.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: CadetLee
It's an audio CD that will play in a standard CD player, but all I see on the disc is an 'inf' file and an exe (autoexec flash file) -- says "HDCD" on the CD.

Ah, multisession. Windows and some rippers ignore the CDA session and show you the data session instead.

 

[Oyeve]

I use Audiograbber and LAME.