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CDTOOL

In 1994, I wrote a Linux CLI tool to play audio CDs. It has since been updated and improved by many others, and is still distributed with current Ubuntu releases.

• cdtool home page
• Ubuntu Launchpad entry

Additional Downloads

The base 2.1.8 release from Max Vozeler:

• cdtool-2.1.8.tar.gz
• on the ibiblio Linux Archive
• local mirror

Version 2.1.5 updated by Sven Oliver Moll and then Wade Hampton, including all sorts of fancy stuff like CDDB support:

• cdtool-2.1.5-1.i386.rpm
• cdtool-2.1.5-1.src.rpm
• cdtool-2.1.5.lsm
• cdtool-2.1.5.tar.gz

Bruce M. Simpson (bsimpson@mcs.dundee.ac.uk) has kindly supplied patches to cdtool-2.1.5 for use with Solaris 2.5 and newer:

• The README file
• cdtool-2.1.5_SunOS-5.5-SPARC.tar.gz — use with cdtool-2.1.5.tar.gz to compile on a Sparc. Includes binaries.

and for OpenBSD:

• cdtool-2.1.5_OpenBSD_i386.tar.gz

For users of Linux 2.3, Jaakko Hyvatti provided the following patch:

• cdtool-2.1.5-patch1

Josh Buhl’s patches to add a cdclose command to reverse the effects of cdeject.

• cdtool_close.diff (for the tar.gz file above)
• cdtool_close_debian.diff (for the current Debian source)

My original release:

• The README file
• cdtool-1.0.tgz

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