Difference between revisions of "Rescuing optical media"

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Revision as of 17:34, 7 May 2013

General information

Rescuing optical media can be difficult, due to the many incompatible formats and copy protections that were used. CDs are difficult to image at low-level because most drives do not give access to the raw data.

The following is a table of some available disc dumping tools.

Software Supported media Development status License Platforms supported Drives supported Output format Latest Version Website Notes
Exact Audio Copy Audio CD Actively developed Proprietary Microsoft Windows Most wav/flac + cue 1.0 beta 3 [1]
X Lossless Decoder Audio CD Actively developed GPL Mac OS X Most wav/flac + cue 20130407 [2]
Morituri Audio CD Actively developed GPL Linux Most wav/flac + cue 0.2.0-1 [3]
RawDump GC/Wii Optical Disc Unmaintained Proprietary Windows Certain Hitachi/LG "ISO" 2.1 [4]
FriiDump GC/Wii Optical Disc Unmaintained GPL Windows and Linux Certain Hitachi/LG "ISO" 0.5.3 [5] Includes documentation on dumping method
cdrdao CD-ROM Actively maintained GPL Linux and Mac OS X Most cue/bin 1.2.3 [6] Does not properly rip CDs with nonstandard data
Trurip CD-ROM Unknown Unreleased Windows Certain Plextor ccd/sub/img Unknown [7] Supposedly supports SafeDisc and other forms of copy protection
DiscImageCreator CD-ROM, GD-ROM, DVD-ROM Actively maintained MS-PL Windows Certain Plextor/others cue / multiple bin 20130407 [8] Believed to produce identical output as TruRip for most discs

[9] has a list of other tools for disc dumping.