burncd audio produces white noise

[Stephen Hurd]

Michael A. Koerber wrote:
> All,
>
>   Once upon a time, I think with 5.x or perhaps earlier, the command
> (ATAPI drive)
>
>     burncd -ef /dev/acd0 audio *.cdr fixate
>
> would produce an audio CD for me.  However, under 6.0 and recently 6.1
> this same command produces an CD filled with white noise only.  The entire
> procedure I've used is:
>
>   1.  Start w/ some MP3 files.
>
>   2.  Use sox (or lame) to convert to CDR format
>
>   3.  Verify the CDR format with 'xine filename.cdr'  (sounds good)
>
>   4.  Make CD with above command.
>
>   5.  Play CD on two different players (one on PC, one on entertainment system) 
>       (sounds like white noise)
>
>   6.  Extract a CD track with dd if=/dev/acd0t01 of=tmp.cdr bs=2532
>
>   7.  Test ripped track with 'xine tmp.cdr' sound just like the original MP3!
>
> To ensure that there weren't permissions problems along the way, I've executed
> these commands as root, though I once did this as a normal user.
>
> Any ideas on what I should look at to fix this problem?
>   
Yeah, I've noticed that too now that you mention it.  When it happened 
to me, I switched to using atapicam and cdrecord with the -swab parameter.
Also, you may want to look at audio/mp3burn (still need to pass -swab 
though)

I would recommend that you file a PR on this one.