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I have an old audio CD in a folder in my PC and I want to transfer to MP3 or any way I can extract the audio.

This is what I have:

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What is the best way to RIP this to convert it? I tried mounting as a DVD but it didn't help.

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  • You can't convert it. You literally have to rip it using software. Ripping audio CD's is considered illegal, so we can't help you there. Commented Feb 16, 2025 at 16:18
  • @LPChip Depends on the CD. Commented Feb 16, 2025 at 22:59
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    @LPChip Ripping CDs isn't illegal (where are you getting that info from?) Commented Feb 17, 2025 at 0:00
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    @NickSlash Please provide reference links to the law, as it seems like there's some misunderstanding since owning a CD allows you to do whatever you want with the music for personal use per copyright law, including copying the music off the CD to a storage medium Commented Feb 17, 2025 at 0:10
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    Side note: I'd only recommend MP3 that if you have old hardware players that can't play Opus (best quality per bitrate, and the best encoder is open source), or at least AAC (competitive quality per bitrate, but only with closed-source encoders). For use on a computer, Opus is the clear winner. Or a lossless format like FLAC if you have plenty of space and really like that CD so want to keep a full-quality copy of it around. Commented Feb 17, 2025 at 9:18

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Audio CDs generally do not have a mountable filesystem like DVDs do; instead they just store raw PCM audio data (with one track per track). So the .bin file is practically [maybe not exactly] a WAV rip of the audio CD, and the .cue file describes where each audio or data track starts within that.

Start by opening the .cue file in Notepad to check what kind of tracks it has (i.e. does it have a data track or many audio tracks) to know what tools will be needed.

Some audio players can directly open .cue files – I believe foobar2000 can both play and convert them. (There also seems to be a "Medieval CUE Splitter" but it's a bit unclear as to what formats it uses as input and output.)

For Linux, bchunk can be used to extract each audio track to a .wav file (and the data track, if any, to an .iso file) which you can then encode using ffmpeg or lame or any other tool of choice.

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    I personally confirm that foobar2000 (for Windows) can open a CUE file as a playlist of multiple tracks, and it can convert one or more tracks to other audio file formats. Commented Feb 17, 2025 at 5:15
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I haven't had to deal with a .cue file recently, but when I did, I've had good luck with cuetools.

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These settings should work, and IIRC all you need to do is to have the cue and bin files in the same folder, and to drag in the cue file for processing.

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For Windows: One can mount the BIN/CUE Files with WinCDEmu (gratis and open-source), PowerISO. Daemon Tools or IsoBuster may work too.

Here are the instructions for PowerISO:

BIN / CUE format is used to store disc image, which is composed a cue sheet file (.cue) and one or more bin files. The cue file is a plain-text file, which stores the information of disc and tracks. The bin file is a binary file, which stores the raw sector-by-sector copies of the tracks in the disc. With PowerISO, you can open BIN / CUE files, burn them to disc, or mount as virtual drive. To open BIN / CUE files and extract files from them, please follow the steps,

  • Run PowerISO.

  • Click the "Open" button on toolbar or choose "File > Open" menu, then select the BIN or CUE file to open. PowerISO will automatically locate corresponding CUE file when you select a BIN file, and vice versa.

  • PowerISO will open the selected BIN / CUE files, and list all files with them.

  • Click the "Extract" button on toolbar to open "Extract BIN file" dialog.

  • Choose the destination directory for extraction.

  • If you want to extract all files, you should select "All files" option.

  • Click the "OK" button to start extracting BIN / CUE file.

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  • Does this extract whole tracks, or does it just extract files from within a data track? Commented Feb 17, 2025 at 5:57

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