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Date:      Sun, 08 Apr 2001 10:01:32 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com>
To:        Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Graywane <graywane@home.com>
Subject:   Re: burncd audio problems
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20010408100132.conrads@home.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010408021044.B60431@cec.wustl.edu>

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On 08-Apr-2001 Andrew Hesford wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 10:34:57PM -0400, Graywane wrote:
>> I am having no problems writing data CD's with /usr/sbin/burncd on my ATAPI
>> PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W1210A. However, I can't seem to write a good audio CD.
>> Using cdda2wav I can get descent wav files but extracting in raw format and
>> then burning to the CD results in garbage.
>> 
>> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Welcome to the club. I don't think you are doing anything wrong, I have
> the same error. When i attempt to burn audio CDs, it tell me it is
> writing -1 of XXXXX bytes, and quits. The problem is not in the data
> stream, because burning a data CD using the same WAV file works just
> fine.

Recently, someone mentioned that the "cure" for this is to be sure to use the
-s switch to burncd, with a speed setting suitable for your drive.

> I'm not sure where the problem is. I used to burn audio CDs with Linux's
> ide-scsi emulation layer and cdrecord, with no problems.

Really, did you *have* to mention that?  :-)

-- 
Conrad Sabatier
conrads@home.com


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