[LAU] Audio distros

[david]

On 02/19/2013 03:48 AM, Len Ovens wrote:
>
> 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.

Didn't try Brasero until after I'd switched to cdrecord. Haven't tried 
GCDMaster, I'm not a fan of the GNOME desktop environment.

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