On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:28:28 +0000, Paul Smith wrote: > On 1/12/06, Paul Smith <phhs80@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > > I am using the command >> > > >> > > cdrecord dev=/dev/cdrom -eject speed=2 -pad -audio *.wav >> > > >> > > to create an audio CD from wav files, but all I get is a noisy CD, >> > > when played. Any ideas? >> > >> > The command you're using looks right. I only got a noisy cd as you >> > describe when I (miss)used the swab flag. Do a man cdrecord and search for >> > swab, and see if that helps. >> > >> > Are those really wav files? Can you play them e.g. with >> > >> > play file.wav >> > >> > ? >> >> Thanks, Amadeus. My wav files do not play with play: >> >> $ play track01.wav >> sox: Failed reading track01.wav: WAVE: RIFF header not found >> >> but play fine with mplayer. > > My wav files were created with > > lame file.mp3 file.wav > > However, with the command > > lame --decode file.mp3 file.wav > > the wav files produced work fine with play. Furthermore, the command > > cdrecord dev=/dev/cdrom -eject speed=2 -pad -audio *.wav > > creates a fine audio CD. My problem is finally solved! > > Paul No kidding! When you first did lame file.mp3 file.wav you encoded to mp3 a file which was already mp3. So even though you called the output file.wav it was a doubly encoded mp3. Not a .wav file.
