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. 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 > > -- > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com
