Audio CD's burnt by Puppy are poor quality or won't play

[GatorDog]

I'm helping a friend convert lectures on 90 minute cassettes to CD's.

- Audacity to record audio.
- Sox to merge side A & B.
- Wavbreaker to split into 5 minute tracks.

I've used cdrecord command line in Pup 2.13, and also tried K3B in
Teenpup 2.0 . We've tried both CD-R & CD-RW, and three different
brands of CD. Results have been inconsistant. They either won't play
at all; or the first few tracks have a lot of static and the later tracks
won't play.

However, if we take the same 5 minute tracks and burn CD's using
Sonic in win xp, the CD's play just fine.

I believe this is the cdrecord line I used:

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cdrecord dev=ATAPI:/dev/hda fs=4096k -v -useinfo speed=1 -dao -eject -pad -audio *.wav

The system we're using is a Pentium 4 / cpu 3.4 GHz

Obviously I'd like to be able to complete the entire process in Puppy.
Any ideas?

rod

[Ledster]

My experience has been worse than yours. I have tried Burnisotocd, Gcombust, Grafburn and tkDVD, and so far have made 7 (or is it 8?) coasters. The burning never happens - well, just enough that the disk cannot be used again.
The only program I have found to work is NeroLinux, which is, at the moment, available on free trial. It seems to work perfectly for me. I downloaded nerolinux-3.0.0.0-x86.rpm, used unrpmfull to extract it and moved all the files into puppy in the appropriate directories and it worked. Only problem is my trial expires on July 1st. If I can't find an open source burner that works I may have to invest 20 Euros for a licence.
Presumably my Sony DVD reader/writer is not liked by the usual programs. It works fine in Windows and Suse (on the same computer).

[Flash]

I haven't burned any regular CDs with Puppy but I've burned several mp3 CDs (as data CDs) that played fine in my car's mp3 CD player. It's been a while but think I used Menu > Multimedia > Gcombust.

[Dougal]

You fells might want to try searching the forum for Nathan's "cdrkit" package.

cdrtools is old and complains about the 2.6 kernel and the guy who created it is a jerk and won't change it... so the Debian folks went and created cdrkit, which works better.

It comes with links to replace "cdrecord" and "mkisofs", so you don't need to modify the apps in Puppy to work with it.
You might want to try Nathan's latest version of Grafburn (also on the forum somewhere).

[GatorDog]

K3B in Knoppix 5.1 seems to be able to burn the audio cd's.

Made a liveCD of Pup 2.16.1 and tried Grafburn.
It stops and complains that the .wav file is in an inappropiate
format (or something similar) and won't go any further.

rod

[Ledster]

Thought I'd try cdrkit as suggested above. So did a search, found the thread - and the link for cdrkit-1.1.6.pet is dead. The petget page has cdrkit-1.1.5.1.pet, but I always like to use/try the latest. Has the 1.1.6 been withdrawn? If not where can I get it?

[GatorDog]

I Googled "inappropriate audio coding" and it seems that audio CD's
are suppose to be in stereo. We've been recording the cassette tapes
in mono.

After merging the two sides of the cassettes into one digitized file, the
total time is a little less than 80 minutes; and a little over 400 Meg.

I ran the files through Sox file conversion so they'd be in stereo format.
That more or less doubled the file size; no suprise. But then it is too large
to fit on a 700M CD.

Sonic-Record Now (winxp) must be doing some kind of conversion of
the mono files to write them (and fit) on a CD.

rod

[Flash]

Thought I'd try cdrkit as suggested above. So did a search, found the thread - and the link for cdrkit-1.1.6.pet is dead. The petget page has cdrkit-1.1.5.1.pet, but I always like to use/try the latest. Has the 1.1.6 been withdrawn? If not where can I get it?

You might find it, or something else that will work, at http://dotpups.de/dotpups/

[Dougal]

Thought I'd try cdrkit as suggested above. So did a search, found the thread - and the link for cdrkit-1.1.6.pet is dead. The petget page has cdrkit-1.1.5.1.pet, but I always like to use/try the latest. Has the 1.1.6 been withdrawn? If not where can I get it?

I've attached the 1.1.6 .pet in the original thread.