HOWTO use CDemu under Ubuntu Hardy

1. Add cdemu repository

   deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/cdemu/ubuntu hardy main

   (See Adding extra repositories)
2. sudo apt-get update
3. sudo apt-get install cdemu-daemon gcdemu
4. sudo /etc/init.d/cdemu-daemon start
5. Alt-F2, cdemud-session (or logout and login)
6. Add gCDEmu Applet to GNOME panel (See Adding an Object to a Panel)
7. Click on the newly added applet
8. On the popup menu, select an empty device (e.g. "Device 00: Empty")
9. Choose an ISO (or CUE, etc)
10. Magic

References

• CDemu homepage
• PPA for CDemu

Background

Kong in Concert

dkcproject.ocremix.org hosts a torrent containing WAVe files, with some CUE and NCD thrown in the mix. Rhythmbox doesn't scrobble WAVe files to Last.fm. I'm too lazy to either download the MP3s from OverClocked ReMix or hand-convert them to MP3/OggVorbis.

Brasero to BinChunker to CDemu

As I was about to stop my sloth, I accidentally opened the CUE file from Nautilus. Brasero popped up, offering to burn an audio CD. I wasn't able to trick Brasero to make an ISO image. Still searching to make that ISO image, I was misled to BinChunker (bchunk in Ubuntu). But BinChunker only assembles a BIN and a CUE into an ISO, and not "a bunch of WAVe files and a CUE".