On Thursday 12 August 2004 5:15 am, Stelios Bounanos wrote:
- Have yout tried mpg321 -w? It shouldn't make a difference to
cdrecord (it's supposed to detect & support both formats) but at least with -w you can play the output with sox etc.
- Slower speed, different media, firmware update, wait for full moon...?
Right..... The -w option you suggested produced a playable wav that sounded fine. file says
1.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, stereo 44100 Hz
Which looks reasonable enough, however cdrecord produced the same results (a playable but wrong sounding disk) So logic would dictate that there is something wrong with the way that cdrecord and my nec drive do the business, I can't believe that cdrecord on SuSE 9.1 is completely broken in this respect as if it were there would be a lot more shouting in the newsgroups.
Therefore I suspect that there is something about my nec drive that cdrecord doesn't like, it still produces data cd's and DVD's fine and as I have previously mentioned other things like cloning audio or data disks works perfectly. Surely this means that the drive and media are ok.
Now I have tried compiling the latest cdrecord and cdrtools from the authors site, but I haven't yet completely worked out how you are supposed to compile x86_64 unaware source. Not a single application that I have tried to compile on this system has worked yet, I know I am doing something wrong there.
The other thing that keeps nagging me (apart from the Girlfriend that wants some new compilation cd's for her car) is the fact that this all worked once, on this very system, with these versions of cdrecord and friends. I can't find anything that has changed, YOU hasn't updated any related packages, I haven't messed with DMA modes etc (although I did try that just now)
I think the next step is to slot my old Pioneer drive into this machine and confirm that it is a cdrecord-nec 2510 problem, but in the meantime to save me having to crack open the case and disturb my lovely neat wiring, is there an alternative to using cdrecord for creating audio cd's in linux ?
Cheers Wayne