I've got a side project going that requires files which are just the samples from uncompressed PCM audio. My plan was to first convert everything to WAV, then use my own scripts to strip off all the segments other than the samples.

It occurs to me that converting directly to CDDA ("Red Book" audio) is the same as what I'm getting but with one less step involved, and better-tested code, as long as I'm fine with forcing everything to CD-quality audio (I am). However, looking through the documentation, it seems that `ffmpeg` can't actually output CDDA? Which is somewhat confusing, given how many less-common things it can output and the fact that the audio would be decoded through that form in any other audio-file conversion.

Am I missing some method of getting what I'm looking for, or is this an unexpected missing component in `ffmpeg`? Can some other common tool do it?