Audio CD Burning Perplexities
I have on the hard drive 20 wav files (Signed 16 Bit Little Endian, Rate
44100 Hz, Stereo).
I did succeed burning them one at a time to a cd with the command
cdrecord -v dev="ATA:1,1,0" -tao -pad -nofix filename.wav
with the -nofix option removed for the last track. The resulting cd
plays in most, but not all, of my cd players.
This was a little tedious so I next tried creating soft links to each
file of the form
ln -s filename.wav trackxx where xx runs from 01 to 20
and then burning the cd with the command
cdrecord -v dev="ATA:1,1,0" -pad -audio trackxx
The result was 20 tracks of noise although CD Player knew the name of
the tape and the titles of songs (The 20 files were captured from tape
using Jackd and Ardour and I assume CD Player obtained this information
from the Internet as my system was online).
I next resorted to Xcdroast - I had had some trouble with this program
since switching to a 2.6.8 kernel but that was before I learned to use
the ATA device specification. Originally I had allowed Xcdroast to scan
for devices and it ended up complaining about the lack of scsi
emulation. This time I deleted all the devices autoscan had found and
entered ATA:1,1,0 manually. This worked and I burnt a cd with the 20
wav files which seemed ok but the playback hung up in the middle of one
of the files. The hang up has not proved reproducible. I have not yet
tried the cd on my most fussy cd player as it is on my sailboat about an
hour's drive away.
For the record I burning Memorex Music-CD-R's rated 40x speed my
Norcent cdr drive is 40x12x48 and as I have not set a speed in the
cdrecord commands the files were burnt at about 12x.
So why am I perplexed? I have no confidence that I know a sure way to
burn a good music cd which will play on fussy cd players that have no
trouble playing commercial cd's.
If any one knows how to do this or of references to instructions as to
how to do this I would greatly appreciate any assistance or leads.
Tom George
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