burning CD's

[Charles Hallenbeck]

On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 03:06:49PM -0400, John covici wrote:
> 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.

Yes, all the disks I have here are CDRW's. The player is pretty old 
though, about 10 years. It plays commercial CD's fine, and actually the 
failure occurs on at least three different players, mine and two other 
people's.


> 
> 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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The Moon is Waxing Crescent (4% of Full)
But you can still get downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh
or you could Jabber me, using JID chuckh at hhs48.com