Burning an audio CD

[Roland Smith]

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:23:40PM +0100, Rolf Nielsen wrote:
> On 2009-12-30 23:08, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> > Today I tried to burn an audio CD.  This may actually be the first
> > time I ever did this.
> >
> > I'm sure there are all kinds of GUIey tools, but I took the simple
> > route: expanded a few high-quality MP3s to raw PCM with mpg123,
> > then put a CD-R in the drive and burned it with
> >
> >    burncd -f /dev/acd0 -d audio *
> >
> > That seemed to work.  Afterwards, I tried to play the CD with XMMS.
> > That also worked fine.
> >
> > Then I put the CD into my car CD player, which was the reason for
> > the whole exercise.
> > 11 tracks (ok)... playing track 1... (nothing)... ERROR CD.
> >
> > The player does not like the CD.
> >
> > Is there anything obvious I missed?
> >
> 
> I was about to suggest adding fixate to the command line, like so
> 
> burncd -f /dev/acd0 -d audio * fixate
> 
> but then I read in the man page that it's ignored if -d is given 
> (obviously now that I think about it, since DAO normally implies 
> fixating). However, it may be worth trying anyway.
> 
> You may also want to try sysutils/cdrtools-devel, which is a lot more 
> competent than burncd. However, as you have an ATAPI CD burner, you will 
> need atapicam in your kernel. Either add
> 
> device atapicam
> 
> to your kernel config, recompile, install and reboot or
> 
> kldload atapicam
> 
> as root in the console or an xterm.
> 
> To automate it, add
> 
> atapicam_load="YES"
> 
> to your /boot/loader.conf.

The user that runs cdrecord also requires write access to the /dev/xpt0 device
and the /dev/passN device! See devfs.conf(5) and devfs.rules(5) for making
device permissions permanent. 

Roland
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