Free cdrom software for linux

Eject Cdrom, forcefully ejects your cdrom/cdwriter device.

It is especially useful when you are in a hurry, and dont know which application is using the cdrom device. Instead of pressing the Reset Button use Eject Cdrom

Eject Cdrom, will try the "normal" eject first, if it fails then it will forcefully eject the cdrom.

Make sure that you have your cdrom device linked to /dev/cdrom, check with:

ls -l /dev/cdrom

if you get
/dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdd (or something) then it is ok

else create a symbolic link:
ln -sf /dev/hdd /dev/cdrom (or)
ln -sf /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom

Installation:

just save the eject.desktop file on your desktop or add to your menu. just click it to eject your cdrom (normally else forcefully)!

Auto-eject-cdrom is a very small C application that handles CD-ROM events in Linux. If new media is inserted in a CD-ROM drive, it is automatically mounted based on a matching entry in /etc/fstab.

If a CD-ROM is mounted and the eject button is pressed, the filesystem is umounted and ejected.

This allows for the same basic functionality Windows allows with the CD-ROM eject button.

CDemu is a kernel module for Linux. It is designed to simulate a CD drive + CD with just simple cue/bin files, which are pretty common in the Windows world.
You can use it to watch an SVCD or mount the data track of an bin/cue. However, for watching an SVCD, we would recommend MPlayer which can play bin/cue images directly with the patch a friend and I made for it (more under History).
Status:
- Using CDemu on multi user systems should be safe now. Any user can mount an image in an empty CDemu slot while only the user (and root) can unmount a slot that is already in use.
- Many users have reported SMP issues (varying from lock ups to very poor performance). Weve had an user send us a threading patch to avoid locking issues, but it is 2.4-centric. So, before it can be added to CVS, it needs to be generalized to support 2.4 and 2.6. Unfortunately, none of the CDemu developers have access to SMP systems so the best testing we can do involves it looks good :). CDemu-0.6 final should resolve these issues.
- Looking ahead: CDemu was first created to support bin/cue images. Ideally, wed like to be able to support Nero (.nrg), Disc Juggler (.cdi), Clone CD (.ccd), etc... Anyone with spare time and spare patches would be appreciated.
Installation:
The install is quite simple:
extract the archive (release tarball):
$ tar -jxvf cdemu- .tar.bz2
checkout the code from cvs:
$ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/cdemu co -P cdemu
you need the source of your current running kernel.
/lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build/include needs to point at it.
build the module:
$ make
install the module and user space utilities:
$ sudo make install
now simply load the kernel module:
$ sudo modprobe cdemu
(no message should be displayed after running modprobe)
to load a bin/cue image:
$ cdemu 0 image.cue
$ mount /dev/cdemu/0 /mnt/cdrom
(some things may be different on your system, YMMV)
for more information, please review the help output:
$ cdemu -h
Enhancements:
- This version only supports kernel versions 2.6.16 and higher.
- The 2.4 series is no longer supported.
- cdemu now has file access like in a loop module.
- It should now work on amd64 and SMP systems.
- Support for .iso, .mds, .ccd, and .nrg images was added.
- Some documentation was added.
- Bugfixes were made.

cdevour script is designed to make CD ripping painless. Aside from swapping discs, it aims for as little user interaction as possible. Drives are continually polled for discs. Upon finding a disc in a drive, it determines what CD it is, makes sure it has enough disk space, and rips.
Names are retrieved from CDDB and the disc is ejected when finished. CDs that have already been ripped are ejected immediately, and when there is not enough disk space, the script waits until there is.
A separate encoding script encodes files into Ogg Vorbis in the background. Encoded files are tagged and renamed. Another script can move albums into a music directory automatically.
Main features:
- continually polls your cdrom drives for discs
- determines what CD it is
- ejects a CD if it has already been ripped
- rips your cds, making sure it has enough disk space to do so
- monitors disk usage of running rips
- queues discs for ripping when not enough disk space is available
- gets all the information it needs to name your rips later
- ejects when finished with a CD
- applies cheese or peanut butter spread to discs if desired
cdevour also spawns its own separate encoding script which:
- encodes any finished rips into ogg vorbis, one track at a time
- removes raw data when finished with a track to save disk space
- tags the encoded file with artist, album, track number, title
- renames the file (by default, to my personal liking)
- moves encodes of finished albums to an artist/album directory structure

CDDB is a Perl module that can read the CDDB entry for an audio CD in your drive.

SYNOPSIS

use CDDB_get qw( get_cddb );

my %config;

# following variables just need to be declared if different from defaults

$config{CDDB_HOST}="freedb.freedb.org"; # set cddb host
$config{CDDB_PORT}=8880; # set cddb port
$config{CDDB_MODE}="cddb"; # set cddb mode: cddb or http
$config{CD_DEVICE}="/dev/cdrom"; # set cd device

# user interaction welcome?

$config{input}=1; # 1: ask user if more than one possibility
# 0: no user interaction

# get it on

my %cd=get_cddb(%config);

unless(defined $cd{title}) {
die "no cddb entry found";
}

# do somthing with the results

print "artist: $cd{artist}n";
print "title: $cd{title}n";
print "category: $cd{cat}n";
print "cddbid: $cd{id}n";
print "trackno: $cd{tno}n";

my $n=1;
foreach my $i ( @{$cd{track}} ) {
print "track $n: $in";
$n++;
}

This module/script gets the CDDB info for an audio cd. You need LINUX, SUNOS or *BSD, a cdrom drive and an active internet connection in order to do that.

xmms-rawcdr is a XMMS plugin that plays ripped CD audio tracks.

It can play ripped CD audio tracks with the readcdda utility. Its very useful when you need check mixed type (.wav and .cdr) audio files before recording them on a CD-R (by utilities like cdrdao or cdrecord).

-WARNING-

The raw cdr (ripped from a CDROM) files doesnt contain any header. They have always 44100 samples/sec, 16 bit, 2 channels, big endian order (MSBL LSBL, MSBR LSBR). This file type is detected only by a .cdr extention. If xmms find a *.cdr file and this file is not a .cdr raw audio file, then youll get noise and/or it may damage
your hi-fi speakers if volume is loud.

dcd is a Linux CD player made by a slacker, for slackers. dcd was started because I got tired of having to dedicate a whole console to workbone, and the CD players available for X were, at the time, universally lacking in features. Theyre a bit better now, though.dcd plays CDs, lets you set up CD playlists, and does most of what a conventional CD player does, in a (hopefully) intuitive manner.
For installation follow these steps:
Look at the Makefile.
There are a few things you might want to change:
If /dev/cdrom isnt a symlink to your "real" CD-ROM device, either edit the Makefile or create the symlink as appropriate.
You might want to enable the debugging flags. But probably not.
Various other configuration options which are explained much better in the Makefile.
Type `make. Then type `make install or just copy the binary (dcd) and manual page (dcd.1) somewhere useful.
Enhancements:
- Removed network support (its in the Makefile) for Thinstation