burning CD's

[John covici]

What is the device and are you using cdrw's by any chance?  It might
not work on older cd players -- although I had no problems like that.

on Monday 09/05/2005 Charles Hallenbeck(chuckh at hhs48.com) wrote
 > I have been happily burning CD's here on my Debian GNU/Linux system, 
 > kernel 2.6.12, both data CD's and audio CD's, and they all can be read 
 > or played just fine on my computer's CDROM drive.
 > 
 > But I wanted to play one of the audio CD's I made on a standard 
 > commercial CD player, and guess what? It won't play. Is there a trick or 
 > secret I need to know? Can others burn audio CD's which play on standard 
 > CD players?
 > 
 > Here is what I do. I have the device specified in a config file, so it 
 > does not have to appear on the command line. The speed is set there too, 
 > but everything I burn tops out at speed 4 no matter how the speed 
 > parameter is set. My cdrecord command line looks like this:
 > 
 > cdrecord -tao -audio -pad <list-of-wav-files>
 > 
 > The messages seem correct, and as I say, the resulting audio CD plays 
 > fine on the drive that burned it, but not when I take it downstairs to 
 > the family room and pop it into the stereo. What have I overlooked?
 > 
 > TIA,
 > Chuck
 > 
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