[LAU] Audio distros

[Len Ovens]

On Sun, February 17, 2013 6:22 pm, david wrote:
> On 02/17/2013 02:28 AM, Chris Bannister wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 08:50:39PM -1000, david wrote:

>>> I don't always agree with Debian's personal idiocies, such as their
>>> hatred of cdrecord. I replaced wodim with cdrecord, and was
>>> surprised to find out that CD burning WORKED ON MY LAPTOP AGAIN.
>>> Wodim had been failing with "hardware" errors for a few years before
>>> that.
>>
>> Were you using wodim from the command line? You should file a bug, if it
>> is not working for you.
>
> I was using wodim via K3B. Wodim was reporting hardware errors (via K3B)
> with my CD drive. My laptop was old then, it's a couple of years older
> now, so I figured the CD drive was going bad. So I quit burning CDs on
> it. Then I read the cdrecord team's side of the issue with Debian, and
> decided to see if cdrecord would work. It did, successfully burning CDs
> on my laptop without hardware errors.

I have had problems with k3b as well (two bad dvds before I gave up), if I
use brasero it's ok. I think brasero cd burning (from a toc file) uses
cdrdao. gcdmaster is the tool I like best though.


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Len Ovens
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