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 > > > > > > -- > > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > 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
