Hi Folks,
I'm trying to get a ".wav" file (which I also have in a version ".cdr" converted by sox) onto a CD so that the CD can be played on a CD player.
With 'xcdroast' I can get the file onto CD as a "data CD", but this doesn;t work for playing on a CD player.
My 'xcdroast' tells me, when I'm about to master the file into an ISO image, that if I'm only mastering ".wav" files and want to create an aufio CD then I should use the "Write Tracks" menu and not the "Master Tracks" menu.
That's all very well, but if I do that then the "Image Information" panel under "Write Tracks -> Layout Tracks, which seems to be the only way I can designate the filenames for tracks, shows me nothing (unless I have already mastered an image under "Master Tracks" which is then an ISO image which I don't want), and I can see no way of getting the filename into this window.
This is xcdroast-0.98alpha13 on Red Hat 9.1.
When I click on "Create CD" from the top menu, the first display which comes up is "CD.Image Info", and in this panel I can see the filenames. However, there's no provision there to select them for later use.
The only other option which displays them is "Master Tracks" as described above.
Can anyone take my hand and lead me out of the wood, please?
Thanks, Ted.
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Ted Harding Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
Hi Folks,
I'm trying to get a ".wav" file (which I also have in a version ".cdr" converted by sox) onto a CD so that the CD can be played on a CD player.
With 'xcdroast' I can get the file onto CD as a "data CD", but this doesn;t work for playing on a CD player.
Correct, it won't ;) I must admit that I have not use XCDRoast much, but when I did use it, it's interface felt klunky, if you want to use a graphical tool, I can suggest k3b, but I must also admit to not using that too much (I'm a command line kinda guy ;)
Right - now this is where I go to the ol' command line mode as usual, assuming that the wav file is in the right form for throwing on to the CD, which I assume it will be if it's a straight conversion from a .cdr, what you want to do is...
cdrecord -v dev=/path/to/cd/writer -audio trackname.wav
from a shell, as a user that can play nicely with the cdwriter.
Cheers,
On 26-Feb-05 Brett Parker wrote:
Ted Harding Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
Hi Folks,
I'm trying to get a ".wav" file (which I also have in a version ".cdr" converted by sox) onto a CD so that the CD can be played on a CD player.
With 'xcdroast' I can get the file onto CD as a "data CD", but this doesn;t work for playing on a CD player.
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Right - now this is where I go to the ol' command line mode as usual, assuming that the wav file is in the right form for throwing on to the CD, which I assume it will be if it's a straight conversion from a .cdr,
Well actually it's the other way round -- the .wav is what was saved by 'vsound' from a "Listen Again" session on Radio 4, and the .cdr was converted from the .wav by sox (since it seems that .cdr is the CD format). I could always convert it back ...
what you want to do is...
cdrecord -v dev=/path/to/cd/writer -audio trackname.wav
from a shell, as a user that can play nicely with the cdwriter.
Thanks, I'll try that. I'd tried cdrecord, but not with your particular abracadabra. (Kept getting "read-only device, despite being root and despite the fact that xcdroast can write to it).
Thanks for the suggestion, and all best wishes, Ted.
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On Saturday 26 February 2005 8:55 pm, Brett Parker wrote:
Correct, it won't ;) I must admit that I have not use XCDRoast much, but when I did use it, it's interface felt klunky, if you want to use a graphical tool, I can suggest k3b, but I must also admit to not using that too much (I'm a command line kinda guy ;)
k3b is a really nice GUI CD burning tool, so nice in fact that I wish there was a Windows port, it's far better than Nero,Adaptec Easy CD Creator, Veritas Record Now and all the other tat that gets peddled to the poor Windows users.
However I believe that out of the context of KDE k3b looses some of its best features (I like the integration with Amarok and the extension to the KDE action menu) isn't Red Hat of the default to Gnome school, Isn't there a Gnome equivalent of k3b ?
Dear Ted,
I have successfully used cdrecord with the -audio option for this job (I have a primitive outlook and am happier with command line utilities!). The document in /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/ gives all the documentation I have ever needed. Good luck!
Best wishes,
Richard James.
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
Hi Folks,
I'm trying to get a ".wav" file (which I also have in a version ".cdr" converted by sox) onto a CD so that the CD can be played on a CD player.
With 'xcdroast' I can get the file onto CD as a "data CD", but this doesn;t work for playing on a CD player.
My 'xcdroast' tells me, when I'm about to master the file into an ISO image, that if I'm only mastering ".wav" files and want to create an aufio CD then I should use the "Write Tracks" menu and not the "Master Tracks" menu.
That's all very well, but if I do that then the "Image Information" panel under "Write Tracks -> Layout Tracks, which seems to be the only way I can designate the filenames for tracks, shows me nothing (unless I have already mastered an image under "Master Tracks" which is then an ISO image which I don't want), and I can see no way of getting the filename into this window.
This is xcdroast-0.98alpha13 on Red Hat 9.1.
When I click on "Create CD" from the top menu, the first display which comes up is "CD.Image Info", and in this panel I can see the filenames. However, there's no provision there to select them for later use.
The only other option which displays them is "Master Tracks" as described above.
Can anyone take my hand and lead me out of the wood, please?
Thanks, Ted.
E-Mail: (Ted Harding) Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 26-Feb-05 Time: 20:09:26 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------
On 27-Feb-05 Richard James wrote:
Dear Ted,
I have successfully used cdrecord with the -audio option for this job (I have a primitive outlook and am happier with command line utilities!). The document in /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/ gives all the documentation I have ever needed. Good luck!
On 26-Feb-05 Brett Parker wrote:
Correct, it won't ;) I must admit that I have not use XCDRoast much, but when I did use it, it's interface felt klunky, if you want to use a graphical tool, I can suggest k3b, but I must also admit to not using that too much (I'm a command line kinda guy ;)
Right - now this is where I go to the ol' command line mode as usual, assuming that the wav file is in the right form for throwing on to the CD, which I assume it will be if it's a straight conversion from a .cdr, what you want to do is...
cdrecord -v dev=/path/to/cd/writer -audio trackname.wav
from a shell, as a user that can play nicely with the cdwriter.
Thanks to all for the comments, and especially to Richard & Brett for the suggestion of cdrecord (with the right arguments!).
The CD-Writing-HOWTO suggested by James, in particular, gave me the insight I needed -- the tip in the HOWTO about using
cdrecord -scanbus
helped me get that bit of it right; and the "-audio" option was also essential. Putting all this together, I did
cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,0,0 -audio filename.cdr
and got a perfect audio CD!
Command-line is always best once you know what you're doing.
The problem (for me) with CD writing is that I don't really know my way round the ins and outs of this activity, so I was hoping that 'xcdroast' would take over that side of things, having offered me a basic "Create Audio CD" choice to start with. Since it doesn't seem to want to do that, I still don't know how to use it for this purpose! Not that it matters any more.
Thanks, and best wishes to all, Ted.
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On Sunday 27 February 2005 12:57, Ted Harding wrote:
Right - now this is where I go to the ol' command line mode as usual, assuming that the wav file is in the right form for throwing on to the CD, which I assume it will be if it's a straight conversion from a .cdr, what you want to do is...
The correct file type for recording *.wav files to CD tracks is "RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, stereo 44100 Hz". If your wave file doesn't meet this spec (I've run into some that didn't), use sox to convert it.
helped me get that bit of it right; and the "-audio" option was also essential. Putting all this together, I did
cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,0,0 -audio filename.cdr
You can also do multiple tracks (same as the separate tracks on a commercial music CD) with multiple files:
cdrecord ... -audio foo.wav bar.wav ...
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