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Date:      Mon, 09 Apr 2001 23:12:55 -0400
From:      Bob Johnson <bobj@ufl.edu>
To:        Antoine Reid <antoiner@hansonpublications.com>
Cc:        Graywane <graywane@home.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: burncd audio problems
Message-ID:  <3AD27A37.E78E5721@ufl.edu>
References:  <3AD20505.FAE471CF@eng.ufl.edu> <20010409151638.A4382@home.com> <20010409152327.A17597@wumpus.lan.edmarketing.com>

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Antoine Reid wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 03:16:38PM -0400, Graywane wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 02:52:53PM -0400, Bob Johnson wrote:
> > > And, what is "garbage"?  Does it produce a CD that your player will
> > > accept, but the sound produced is garbage?  Or are you saying that
> > > burncd aborts the attempted write?  Or neither?
> >
> > burncd completes the write, the cd player sees the proper number of audio
> > tracks, but every track sounds like white noise. waveplay on the wav file
> > sounds normal though.
> 
> I don't know if this is the same issue, but on my Yamaha SCSI burner, it expects
> the audio tracks to be in big endian format.. I need to use sox to convert the
> wav in 'cdr' format (to get rid of the WAV header) AND make it change endianness.
> 
> I have no idea if any ATAPI burners react that way though.
> 

The description sure sounds like what you'd get if the byte order were wrong, 
but I'd be surprised if they didn't all work the same.  What's the point of a 
standard that isn't?    Come to think of it, that reasoning frequently fails.

The endian issue might also show up if you cross hardware platforms or 
operating systems.  E.G. a "raw" sound file on an Alpha might have the 
opposite endianness than on an Intel PC.

> > OK. I'll give it another shot tonight. As a side note, what other programs
> > are available for FreeBSD other than cdda2wav for ripping audio tracks from
> > an ATAPI CD drive? Also, are there any firmware update programs for plextor
> > drives that run on something other than Windows and can write to ATAPI
> > drives? I've found a few but they only support SCSI drives. I'd hate to have
> > to find a Linux machine to stick the drive in just to update the firmware.

I use dagrab to rip from CDs, and I use CopyAudio from the afsp package to 
convert wave to raw format.  It can also switch byte order if you need it.

I don't remember exactly why I settled on those particular tools, except that 
they were the first I tried that worked adequately, so that's when I quit 
looking.  Both are in ports.

[...]

- Bob

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