Audio CD Burning Perplexities

From: Thomas H. George (xyz_at_spininternet.com)
Date: 05/07/05

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    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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