[linux-audio-user] Playback slow from burned CD's

patrick reardon swpatrick at earthlink.net
Tue Dec 3 15:23:00 EST 2002


hello everyone,

i don't know if this is the right forum for my question, but here goes.

i'm running on Intel PIII with kernel 2.4.18, ALSA, and a Hammerfall 9632 card.  CD
quality WAV files recorded with ALSA from live performances play back with no problem via
"aplay".  

a Yamaha CRW8424S scsi burner was recently installed and i burned the WAV files to CD with
both "cdrecord" and "cdrdao".  data is actually transferred but when i play the CD's with
a CD player, the tunes are too slow and too low by about a minor third.  

i tried burning at various speeds from 1x to 8x, but always the same problem.  have also
tried a variety of other options to "cdrecord," like using a really big buffer, etc.  the
commands "file" and "aplay" give the following information:

--------snip-----------
$ file blues1.wav 
blues1.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, stereo 44100 Hz

$ aplay blues1.wav 
Playing WAVE 'blues1.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo
--------snip-----------

i wrote to Jorg Schilling who developed "cdrecord", but he only said i need to use 44100
Hz data and that if ALSA wrote incorrect headers, i should write the ALSA group instead. 
i doubt it's a problem with ALSA.

at any rate, i'm out of ideas.  has anyone experienced a similar problem?  any pointers
would be greatly appreciated.  

tia,
patrick



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