[linux-audio-user] Audio Dropouts

Gary Nored gnored at centurytel.net
Thu Mar 1 18:49:09 EST 2007


Paul Davis wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 03:55 +0900, Joel Roth wrote:
>   
>> On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 05:29:57PM -0600, Gary Nored wrote:
>>     
>>> I have a problem burning standard audio CDs. On Ubuntu (Dapper Drake), 
>>> using K3b I am able to burn all variety of disks (wavs, mp3s, etc) but 
>>> when I create a standard audio CD I get dropouts. They do not sound like 
>>> a disconnect, but rather more like a controlled fade, followed 
>>> immediately by a fade to full volume. The whole dropout usually lasts 
>>> 1/4 sec or so, though occasionally a dropout is not restored for the 
>>> remainder of the track. The format of the source material is irrelevant. 
>>> (PS. The drive was taken from an XP box where it creates audio CDs 
>>> perfectly.)
>>>
>>> I've looked about for answers, but have never heard this symptom 
>>> described elsewhere.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any ideas?
>>>       
>> Only to try another burning application, such as
>> cdrecord to see the problem arises.
>>     
>
> AFAIK, *all* cd burning apps use cdrecord. they are just GUI wrappers
> around cdrecord's functionality.
>
> this sounds like an issue with system configuration. can you try running
> k3b as root and see if the same thing happens?
>
> =================
>   
That does it. works perfectly running as root. Spits out a lot of 
complaints (missing database, etc), but works correctly nonetheless.

Do you have any idea of what sort of configuration errors I might check for?

Thanks,

Gary




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