[plug] cd wont play

[Dennis Plester]

Just in case you are interested, the scsi-3/mmc, ATAPI, etc refer to the
different ways in which the audio can be extracted, depending on the type of
device you are using. My guess is that your burner is an IDE (or ATAPI)
unit. If you choose the wrong method of digital audio extraction, you may
get rubbish like white noise, or even tracks of pure digital silence. I've
made one or two CD compilations of the sounds of silence in my time.
Xcdroast defaults to scsi-3/mmc on some IDE writers I've come across.

If in doubt,  you can play the extracted tracks back in Xcdroast first from
the hard disk. If you can hear the music (sound card permitting), they
should be fine once burnt on a CD.

Hope this explains things.

Dennis.

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Rob Dunne [SMTP:robd at anville.wa.cmis.csiro.au]
	Sent:	Monday, 25 September 2000 23:57
	To:	plug at plug.linux.org.au
	Subject:	Re: [plug] cd wont play

	hi Steve,
	     I fixed it -- I had audio-read-mode set to scsi-3/mmc rather
than to
	ATAPI (not that I know what these things are -- i checked another
machine to
	see how it was set up).
	                             bye	
							rob
	Steve Baker writes:
	 > Hi Rob,
	 > 
	 > >From memory, the fix-wav is used to pad out the wav file to the
end of the
	 > block on the CD-ROM.  Without this, the CD player may have
trouble finding
	 > the lead out/lead in between tracks, although it will read the
directory
	 > fine.  (NB: Technical details could be a little incorrect here,
don't paste
	 > me).  I think I had the same problem once - this was a while a go
- and
	 > fix-wav fixed the problem.
	 > 
	 > I think swap-audio swaps the left/right channels - but check the
docs.
	 > 
	 > Try again with fix-wav and see how you go - at worst you'll have
a second
	 > coaster to match the first.
	 > 
	 > Regards,
	 > Steve

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