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 -- 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