DVDA2TRACK(1)

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💿 dvda2track — the DVDA2TRACK(1) manual, but make it cute

okay bestie, so this is the man page for dvda2track, from the DVD-Audio Extractor family of tools. it's giving "rip the good audio off your DVD-Audio disc" and honestly? iconic. let's get into it 💖

✨ NAME ✨

dvda2track — extract audio tracks. that's it, that's the whole job. extract. audio. tracks. 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dvda2track [OPTIONS] [track 1] [track 2] ...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the vibe: dvda2track pulls audio files off a mounted DVD-Audio disc and encodes them into tracks. no cap, that's literally the whole thing.

if you hand it some track numbers, it extracts only those tracks from the given title. if you don't? it just grabs the entire title. go big or go home, we love that for you 💅

💜 OPTIONS 💜

  • -h, --help — shows you a list of options and then dips. bye bestie 👋
  • -I, --interactive — interactive mode! edit metadata and encoding options before it starts extracting the disc. main character energy fr fr.
  • -c, --cdrom=CDROM — the DVD-ROM device the disc is mounted to.
  • -A, --audio-ts=DIR — the path to the mounted disc's "AUDIO_TS" directory.
  • --title=TITLE — the title number to extract tracks from.
  • -V, --verbose=VERBOSITY — how much output you want to see. choose between 'normal', 'quiet' and 'debug'.

🎀 EXTRACTION OPTIONS 🎀

  • -t, --type=TYPE — the audio format of the extracted audio tracks. wanna see a list of available audio formats? try -t help. 🧚
  • -q, --quality=QUALITY — the desired quality of the extracted tracks. wanna see the available quality modes for a given format? try -q help.
  • -d, --dir=DIRECTORY — the target directory for the extracted tracks. if you don't give one, the current working directory gets used. and if that target directory doesn't exist? don't even worry, it gets created automatically. ✨
  • --format=STRING — the format string to use for new filenames. template fields get swapped out for metadata values when new tracks are created, and all the other text is left as-is. if you skip this option, a default format string is used.

🌈 DVD-A LOOKUP OPTIONS 🌈

  • --musicbrainz-server=HOSTNAME — the MusicBrainz server name to query for metadata.
  • --musicbrainz-port=PORT — the MusicBrainz port to query for metadata.
  • --no-musicbrainz — don't query MusicBrainz for metadata.
  • --freedb-server=HOSTNAME — the FreeDB server name to query for metadata.
  • --freedb-port=PORT — the FreeDB port to query for metadata.
  • --no-freedb — don't query FreeDB for metadata.
  • -D, --default — when multiple metadata choices are available, this just picks the first one automatically. lowkey convenient. but heads up: this option has no effect when used with -I. 🙈

⭐ METADATA OPTIONS ⭐

  • --replay-gain — add ReplayGain metadata to newly created tracks.
  • --no-replay-gain — do not add ReplayGain metadata to newly created tracks.

🔥 EXAMPLE 🔥

extract all tracks from the DVD-A on mount point "/media/cdrom" whose DVD-ROM device is "/dev/cdrom":

dvda2track -c /dev/cdrom -A /media/cdrom/AUDIO_TS/

slay. one line. no drama. 🫶

💖 FORMAT STRING FIELDS 💖

here's every template field you can drop into your --format string, and what each one turns into:

  • %(track_number)2.2d — the track's number on the CD
  • %(track_total)d — the total number of tracks on the CD
  • %(album_number)d — the CD's album number
  • %(album_total)d — the total number of CDs in the set
  • %(album_track_number)s — combination of album and track number
  • %(track_name)s — the track's name
  • %(album_name)s — the album's name
  • %(artist_name)s — the track's artist name
  • %(performer_name)s — the track's performer name
  • %(composer_name)s — the track's composer name
  • %(conductor_name)s — the track's conductor name
  • %(media)s — the track's source media
  • %(ISRC)s — the track's ISRC
  • %(catalog)s — the track's catalog number
  • %(copyright)s — the track's copyright information
  • %(publisher)s — the track's publisher
  • %(year)s — the track's publication year
  • %(date)s — the track's original recording date
  • %(suffix)s — the track's suffix
  • %(basename)s — the track's original name, without suffix

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

audiotools-config(1), audiotools.cfg(5), cdda2track(1), cddainfo(1), cddaplay(1), coverdump(1), covertag(1), coverview(1), dvdainfo(1), track2cdda(1), track2track(1), trackcat(1), trackcmp(1), trackinfo(1), tracklength(1), tracklint(1), trackplay(1), trackrename(1), tracksplit(1), tracktag(1), trackverify(1)

the whole friend group. go say hi. the way they all show up together?? obsessed. 💜

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Brian Langenberger — thank you for your service, king. 👑

and that's the page!! this one came from the DVD-Audio Extractor source, dated 2025-03-10, and it's filed under manual section 1. now go extract something gorgeous, bestie 🎀✨

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