collector wrote:

Almost all of the CLI rippers that i can find are for *NIX.

Well, they'll probably work if you install Cygwin, though it is quite understandable if you don't want to go that way.

Otherwise, I reckon you could use http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyrinox/ to make your own suitable utility in Python.

Really, though, I'd be surprised if you couldn't find some ripper that already provides whatever advantages that could be gained from running a CLI ripper in a batch file.

It looks like ImgBurn (the best freeware CD/DVD ripping/burning software for Windows, hands-down) can be used as a command-line app.

The reason that I want to be able to run it from the command line and that it needs to be small and free is so that I can use it with my installers. If you can use it from a bat file, I can rip from an NSIS script. Since it would have to be distributed with the installer, I need to be able to do so legally and it needs to be relatively small, without being installed. I had already looked at ImgBurn, but it seems to need to be installed and the executable is 2.23 MB. I would like to keep it under a MB in size.

I was able to use mkisofs, part of the CDR Tools, with my Lighthouse installer to create ISOs of the discs, since I was unable to concatenate the discs the way I was able to with most of the other multi-disc Sierra games. But as I said, cdda2wav does not seem to work reliably across different PCs.

I guess I'll take a close look at ImgBurn to see if I can use the executable without being installed. If it works, I'll need to see if I can distribute it packed in my installer.

collector wrote:

I would like to keep it under a MB in size.

I don't think that's going to happen.

You ought to be able to make a legally-distributable Python app with the aforementioned module that does not require any kind of installation, and it will probably be about the same size.

I have never fooled around with Python, I'm not quite sure how to get started with building a Win version of pyrinox. I guess I have to look into it, since I am not finding much else.

Might find something here: http://lame.sourceforge.net/links.php