ripping audio CD to mp3 gives silent file

[John-Mark Gurney]

Matthias Apitz wrote this message on Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 11:32 +0200:
> El día Wednesday, July 16, 2014 a las 07:24:12PM +1000, Ian Smith escribió:
> 
> > On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 09:38:45 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> >  > El día Wednesday, July 16, 2014 a las 03:00:58PM +0800, Erich Dollansky escribió:
> >  > Hi,
> >  > 
> >  > On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 08:40:56 +0200
> >  > Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de> wrote:
> >  > 
> >  > > I do:
> >  > > 
> >  > > # cdda2wav -D2,0,0 -t 1 - | lame - Track1.mp3
> >  > > 
> >  > write first the .wav file, test it and convert it then to mp3.
> > 
> >  > Thanks for this hint. Already the .wav file is silent, also in a
> >  > Windows media player the created .wav file is silent.
> > 
> > Well, lame gave a faithful rendering, then :)
> 
> Yes, and how do I solve the problem that the .wav file is silent
> already?

Have you played the .wav file on another machine than the FreeBSD
machine?  How did you determine that the .wav file is slient?  I've
done many audio cd ripping, but w/ cdrdao instead...

If you do a hexdump -C of the .wav file, the first few lines should
have some info, but then the remaining lines should be something like:
00001000  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
*

If it's all random, then it could be your playback method...

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