TOC generator for cdrdao

Fill in the release, drop in your WAVs, and copy the TOC file. Umlauts and other Latin-1 characters are written as octal escapes so CD-Text burns correctly regardless of file encoding.

Total 0:04.0079:56.00 left on an 80 min blank. Dashed line marks 74 min

Release

Album title

Performer

Songwriter

Composer

Arranger

Message

Disc ID (CD-Text)

UPC / EAN for CATALOG

12-digit UPC or 13-digit EAN. Written to the disc as the Media Catalog Number.

Tracks

Drop WAV files here to add tracks with their lengths, or

1no length

Title

Performer

Songwriter

WAV file name

Pregap (seconds or m:s:f)

ISRC

More CD-Text fields

Composer

Arranger

Message

2no length

Title

Performer

Songwriter

WAV file name

Gap before track (seconds or m:s:f)

ISRC

More CD-Text fields

Composer

Arranger

Message

Burn settings

TOC file name

Device

Speed

Default gap for new tracks (seconds)

Checks

Track 1 has no WAV file name.
Track 2 has no WAV file name.

album.toc

CD_DA

// Track 1
TRACK AUDIO
FILE "track01.wav" 0

// Track 2
TRACK AUDIO
PREGAP 0:02:00
FILE "track02.wav" 0

Commands

# check the TOC and audio files without burning
cdrdao show-toc album.toc

# burn with cdrdao — :0x10 turns on CD-Text writing, which is off
# by default whenever the driver is named explicitly
sudo cdrdao write --device /dev/sr0 --driver generic-mmc:0x10 --speed 8 --eject album.toc

# verify what landed on the disc
cd-info /dev/sr0