DVD reporting itself as an Audio CD

[elsandosgrande]

As the title suggests, the discs which contain the recordings used in English class report themselves as mere Audio CDs, when they are, in fact, DVDs.

Now, before you scream "Piracy!", the CD player which our professor has at hand is not exactly the loudest thing in the world, nor does the sound have much clarity when coming from those speakers, so the professor agreed to have me clone the Teacher's CDs in order to share them with other students who are actually interested in learning English (as you may be able to guess, I'm basically there just along for the ride, nothing more).

 

So, I go to my laptop, insert discs one, open K3b, image the "Audio CD", all seems fine. Rinse and repeat for the other two. Then, I insert a blank disc, open K3b, burn the image, but then an error strikes. No biggie, it happened last time when I cloned that math CD for my friend from school. However, unlike that math CD situation, not all was fine after reinserting the disc. It was not detected. It was as if I had not inserted anything, let alone a disc. I noticed that it was an 800MB disc. Oh boy, one is dead, but I will just look up the proper procedure for these discs and soldier on. After looking around online for some tips, I tried again, full of hope. That hope was shattered though, as this disc died in much the same way.

After that, I decided to open the "CD" in Dolphin. To my surprise, I saw several folders which contained the same audio tracks, but in different formats (MP3, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, ...). There were even "FullCD" files, which contained all of the tracks in one file, one per f Seeing that, I thought "This must be bigger than a mere CD." Well, after opening the properties window of the "Audio CD", it calculated the total size to be 4.3GiB, or thereabout. The discs, DVDs, are reporting themselves as Audio CDs, at least to K3b. Then I tried opening one of the discs in VLC as an Audio CD. Sure enough, it played like an Audio CD.

 

Before anybody suggests it, yes, I can simply copy the contents of the discs as if they were USB drives, but I want to be able to clone them.

 

The discs are Gateway 2nd Edition discs, by Macmillan. The box actually has "Audio CDs" written on it.

 

So, if anybody knows how to clone such a weird disc on Linux, or at least how it can even falsely represent itself, I would like to hear what you have to say.

 

 

 

P.S.

I was think about whether to post this here or in https://linustechtips.com/main/forum/38-storage-devices/, but decided on this section, since I'm pretty sure that I would not get any K3b (or Linux) responses from the folks there.

[emosun]

57 minutes ago, elsandosgrande said:

I can simply copy the contents of the discs as if they were USB drives, but I want to be able to clone them

you've currently spent more time attempting to clone them than it would take to copy the files so is there a reason it needs to be a clone

[mariushm]

Try using imgBurn! or alcohol120 to create a disk image of the discs.

[elsandosgrande]

10 hours ago, emosun said:

you've currently spent more time attempting to clone them than it would take to copy the files so is there a reason it needs to be a clone

Why? Well, because I would like to be able to make exact copies. Also, I am not sure how CD readers would treat a DVD, let alone one with folders. Also, I was thinking that somebody could shed some light on how this is even possible.

Edited November 9, 2019 by elsandosgrande
A little touchup

[elsandosgrande]

3 hours ago, mariushm said:

Try using imgBurn! or alcohol120 to create a disk image of the discs.

root@sandys-pavilion:/home/sandy# emerge --search imgburn
  
[ Results for search key : imgburn ]
Searching...

[ Applications found : 0 ]
root@sandys-pavilion:/home/sandy# emerge --search alcohol
  
[ Results for search key : alcohol ]
Searching...

[ Applications found : 0 ]

Yeah... Those are Windows programs. Well, ImgBurn might work with Wine.