[LAU] CD ROM Problem

[david]

Wild guess - is it possible that the resulting track image it's trying 
to burn is just a song or two too long for the media you're using? Like 
trying to fit an 80-minute track onto 70-minute media?

Bob van der Poel wrote:
> This is slowly driving me nuts!
> 
> I booted with an older Ubuntu, 10.04. Same problem.
> 
> So, rebooted and tried once more, but this time I removed tracks 8 and
> 9 (it was hanging at the end(?) of track 8 ...) And, guess what? Yes,
> the burn was 100% successful.
> 
> I've copied the files to an alternate directory and the same problem,
> so I'm thinking it's not a flaky sector in the file.
> 
> So, what in the world could be wrong?
> 
> The tracks are an album of recorder music I got of the net in flac
> format. I converted the flac files to wav using sox. If I use 'file'
> on the files they all appear to be the same:
> 
>  RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, stereo 44100 Hz
> 
> Is it possible/probable that there is bit pattern in the file causing
> this to happen?
> 
> Oh, and yes, I tried this in both TOA and DOA modes. Both fail ... but
> in DOA one doesn't know just where.
> 
> I think that k3b and brasero both use cdrecord, which is a link to
> wodim. Is there an alternate burner that I could try?

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