On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 07:07:21PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > I don't burn much on Linux jsut because the tools seem much more > difficult to use $ cdr *.wav What's difficult about that? (it took a little time to figure out what to put in cdr, but it's only a one line shell script) This looks like it could be a speed problem - certainlly reducing the speed should show whether or not that's the case. On my CDR burning system I then found two major improvements I could make: (a) tweaking the HD performance with hdparm (b) turning on burnproof feature, which has to be done explicitly with cdrecord and I must agree isn't obvious how to do it - driveropts=burnproof, which you find out by RTFM and trying -checkdrive driveropts=help HTH -- Anahata anahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -+- http://www.treewind.co.uk Home: 01638 720444 Mob: 07976 263827