| 1 |
Colleen Beamer wrote: |
| 2 |
> 2) I was successfully able to burn a data CD in KDE 3.5 with k3b |
| 3 |
|
| 4 |
Writing normally occurs at a lower speed than reading. When mine |
| 5 |
was dying, reading a CD went fine when running at low speed, but |
| 6 |
the data rate dropped as soon as it started to gear up. |
| 7 |
|
| 8 |
> 3) I was successfully able to rip the CD with kaudiocreator on my |
| 9 |
> laptop (only problem here is that my music collection is on my |
| 10 |
> desktop (this gives credence to the fact that it is not the CD). |
| 11 |
|
| 12 |
You're talking about a different drive now. That makes it all the |
| 13 |
more likely that the first drive is... of less quality. |
| 14 |
|
| 15 |
> One additional fact. I nuked the kde 3.5 installation completely |
| 16 |
> from my system and went back to kde 3.4. Then, kaudiocreator |
| 17 |
> would not rip the CD. |
| 18 |
|
| 19 |
You see, it is not the version of Kaudiocreator that matters. |
| 20 |
|
| 21 |
> However, I was able to copy the original |
| 22 |
> CD and then burn the tracks using k3b and then, kaudiocreator |
| 23 |
> would rip the CD. |
| 24 |
|
| 25 |
That shows that the original CD is somehow marginal, by production |
| 26 |
fault or on purpose. The combination of a somewhat flaky CD with a |
| 27 |
somewhat flaky drive is what will lead to errors. If you now |
| 28 |
upgrade KDE again, the new Kaudiocreator will also rip the new CD. |
| 29 |
|
| 30 |
That another OS with other reading software can handle the disk |
| 31 |
fine, is not entirely relevant. Have you listened to the tracks it |
| 32 |
produces? |
| 33 |
|
| 34 |
> So, I reiterate, I don't think it is the CD drive. It must be |
| 35 |
> either a setting that I don't have correct or it must have |
| 36 |
> something to do with some quirk in kde and/or kaudiocreator. |
| 37 |
|
| 38 |
Unlikely, as Kaudiocreator is just a front end. It probably uses |
| 39 |
cdparanoia or cdda2wav to read the CD. (I don't own any audio CD |
| 40 |
with which to try this.) Try using cdparanoia directly and see |
| 41 |
whether it shows smilies all the way, or reports jitter and read |
| 42 |
errors and what not. If so, try using cdda2wav with the --speed set |
| 43 |
to a low value. |
| 44 |
|
| 45 |
Cheers, |
| 46 |
|
| 47 |
Benno |
| 48 |
-- |
| 49 |
gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
Archives