burning CD's

[John covici]

As far as I know, cdrw's can't be played on ordinary CD players --
cdr's are so cheap  -- why not use those?


on Monday 09/05/2005 Charles Hallenbeck(chuckh at hhs48.com) wrote
 > 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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