Nick Torenvliet wrote: >Okay, so here is the prince of dumb questions... > >I have a song in ardour- four tracks... and I want to write it to an >audio cd so I can play it on any cd player... could someone fill in the >blanks for me.... > >>From ardour I export into a *stereo WAV* file > >? --> Then I fire up handy dandy application ___________ and import the file > >? --> Then I export it to __________ format > >Then I burn an audio cd using that whiz bang app *gcombust, a front-end to cdrecord* ? > > > Steps 2 & 3 are unnecessary in this method. Make sure your exported tracks are in 44.1 kHz stereo 16-bit WAV format, a.k.a. redbook CD audio. Obviously you must have cdrecord and gcombust installed too. Cdrecord is a standard item included with most (all?) mainstream Linux distros. Best, dp PS: You might want to put in an intermediate step of normalization and/or some other mastering process, perhaps using JAMin.