{"id":33,"date":"2004-11-01T11:07:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-01T11:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwilson.me.uk\/blog\/2004\/11\/burn-cds-from-command-line.htm"},"modified":"2007-05-15T11:59:30","modified_gmt":"2007-05-15T10:59:30","slug":"burn-cds-from-command-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2004\/11\/burn-cds-from-command-line.htm","title":{"rendered":"Burn CDs from the command line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--109930788692214725-->A few days back I downloaded and ran a fantastically useful tool for writing CDs from the command line &#8211; Alex Feinman&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/isorecorder.alexfeinman.com\/createcd.htm\">CreateCD<\/a>. 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