Re: [gentoo-user] cdda2wav/cdrecord - 1 CD refuses to copy...

[Mark Knecht]

Hello Joerg

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Joerg Schilling
<Joerg.Schilling@××××××××××××××××.de> wrote:
> Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>    I am attempting to copy a CD I got. I have had a standard way of
>> doing this for the last few months that uses these commands:
>>
>> cdda2wav dev=1000,1,0 -vall -B -Owav -paranoia -speed=6
>> cdrecord dev=1000,1,0 -eject
>> cdrecord dev=1000,1,0 -v -speed=6 -dao -useinfo -text -eject *.wav
>> rm audio*
>>
>>    This has worked very well with all the CD's I've copied - maybe 50
>> or so - but on this CD it's failing. I've tried rebooting the machine
>> as I don't know how to clear a Check Condition, if that's real,
>> without doing a reboot. The machine is up-to-date as per emerge -pvDuN
>> @world from maybe a week or two ago.
>>
>>    Does anyone see any problems with the commands I'm using or in the
>> data returned by cdda2wav or cdrecord?
>
> Do you know what you changed since then?

That will take awhile to determine. It's an up-to-date Gentoo machine
so things change over time and I don't pay too much attention. The
only things marked as testing are mythtv, portage, mesa and sandbox. I
know the sandbox entry was temporary and isn't required on my other
systems now so maybe I can get rid of that, but I thought that was
just for doing the builds, not normal day-to-day use.

Anyway, I'll take a pass at finding changes but it only effects this
CD so I'm thinking it's CD specific. The other 6 I wrote last night
all play fine in my car.

> There may be a problem caused by hald. Did you try to write in -raw96r mode
> as mentioned by cdrecord? Hald does not interrupt the write process if
> this is done in RAW mode.

OK, I tried quickly to do this and didn't have any luck. I'm not sure
if the drive supports it?

Instead of:

cdrecord dev=1000,1,0 -v -speed=6 -dao -useinfo -text -eject *.wav

I tried

cdrecord dev=1000,1,0 -v -speed=6 -dao -raw96r -useinfo -text -eject *.wav
cdrecord dev=1000,1,0 -v -speed=6 -raw96r -useinfo -text -eject *.wav
cdrecord dev=1000,1,0 -v -speed=6 -sao -raw96r -useinfo -text -eject *.wav

All failed with messages like

cdrecord: Drive does not support RAW recording.

>
> You did not mention the cue sheet or *.inf content and it is well known that
> some drives do not like all CUE sheets.

OK, let's explore that. I provided the contents of audio.cddb and
audio.cdindex because those were the only two files created by my
cdda2wav command:

cdda2wav dev=1000,1,0 -vall -B -Owav -paranoia -speed=6

I don't see a way to read a cue sheet from the existing drive. (There
isn't one, is there?)

Is there maybe a way to run cdda2wav or cdrecord to create a cue sheet
as a file so we can look at it?

The *.inf files look fairly consistent from song to song:

MacMini test2 # cat *.inf
#created by cdda2wav
2.01.01a57_linux_2.6.28-gentoo-r5_ppc_7447a,-altivec-supported
11/05/09 07:38:54
#
CDINDEX_DISCID= 'x7kWW2ke0dtT4IO_V6RVoLlw5mc-'
CDDB_DISCID=    0x650b2d07
MCN=
ISRC=
#
Albumperformer= 'Indukti'
Performer=      'Indukti'
Albumtitle=     'S.U.S.A.R.'
Tracktitle=     'freder'
Tracknumber=    1
Trackstart=     0
# track length in sectors (1/75 seconds each), rest samples
Tracklength=    33819, 0
Pre-emphasis=   no
Channels=       2
Copy_permitted= once (copyright protected)
Endianess=      little
# index list
Index=          0
Index0=         -1
# md5 sum
MD5-offset=     44
#created by cdda2wav
2.01.01a57_linux_2.6.28-gentoo-r5_ppc_7447a,-altivec-supported
11/05/09 07:38:55
#
CDINDEX_DISCID= 'x7kWW2ke0dtT4IO_V6RVoLlw5mc-'
CDDB_DISCID=    0x650b2d07
MCN=
ISRC=
#
Albumperformer= 'Indukti'
Performer=      'Indukti'
Albumtitle=     'S.U.S.A.R.'
Tracktitle=     'cold inside... I'
Tracknumber=    2
Trackstart=     33819
# track length in sectors (1/75 seconds each), rest samples
Tracklength=    18425, 0
Pre-emphasis=   no
Channels=       2
Copy_permitted= once (copyright protected)
Endianess=      little
# index list
Index=          0
Index0=         -1
# md5 sum
MD5-offset=     44
#created by cdda2wav
2.01.01a57_linux_2.6.28-gentoo-r5_ppc_7447a,-altivec-supported
11/05/09 07:38:55
#
CDINDEX_DISCID= 'x7kWW2ke0dtT4IO_V6RVoLlw5mc-'
CDDB_DISCID=    0x650b2d07
MCN=
ISRC=
#
Albumperformer= 'Indukti'
Performer=      'Indukti'
Albumtitle=     'S.U.S.A.R.'
Tracktitle=     'no. 11812'
Tracknumber=    3
Trackstart=     52244
# track length in sectors (1/75 seconds each), rest samples
Tracklength=    35957, 0
Pre-emphasis=   no
Channels=       2
Copy_permitted= once (copyright protected)
Endianess=      little
# index list
Index=          0
Index0=         -1
# md5 sum
MD5-offset=     44
#created by cdda2wav
2.01.01a57_linux_2.6.28-gentoo-r5_ppc_7447a,-altivec-supported
11/05/09 07:38:55
#
CDINDEX_DISCID= 'x7kWW2ke0dtT4IO_V6RVoLlw5mc-'
CDDB_DISCID=    0x650b2d07
MCN=
ISRC=
#
Albumperformer= 'Indukti'
Performer=      'Indukti'
Albumtitle=     'S.U.S.A.R.'
Tracktitle=     'shade'
Tracknumber=    4
Trackstart=     88201
# track length in sectors (1/75 seconds each), rest samples
Tracklength=    20216, 0
Pre-emphasis=   no
Channels=       2
Copy_permitted= once (copyright protected)
Endianess=      little
# index list
Index=          0
Index0=         -1
# md5 sum
MD5-offset=     44
#created by cdda2wav
2.01.01a57_linux_2.6.28-gentoo-r5_ppc_7447a,-altivec-supported
11/05/09 07:38:55
#
CDINDEX_DISCID= 'x7kWW2ke0dtT4IO_V6RVoLlw5mc-'
CDDB_DISCID=    0x650b2d07
MCN=
ISRC=
#
Albumperformer= 'Indukti'
Performer=      'Indukti'
Albumtitle=     'S.U.S.A.R.'
Tracktitle=     'uluru'
Tracknumber=    5
Trackstart=     108417
# track length in sectors (1/75 seconds each), rest samples
Tracklength=    29566, 0
Pre-emphasis=   no
Channels=       2
Copy_permitted= once (copyright protected)
Endianess=      little
# index list
Index=          0
Index0=         -1
# md5 sum
MD5-offset=     44
#created by cdda2wav
2.01.01a57_linux_2.6.28-gentoo-r5_ppc_7447a,-altivec-supported
11/05/09 07:38:55
#
CDINDEX_DISCID= 'x7kWW2ke0dtT4IO_V6RVoLlw5mc-'
CDDB_DISCID=    0x650b2d07
MCN=
ISRC=
#
Albumperformer= 'Indukti'
Performer=      'Indukti'
Albumtitle=     'S.U.S.A.R.'
Tracktitle=     'no. 11811'
Tracknumber=    6
Trackstart=     137983
# track length in sectors (1/75 seconds each), rest samples
Tracklength=    33381, 0
Pre-emphasis=   no
Channels=       2
Copy_permitted= once (copyright protected)
Endianess=      little
# index list
Index=          0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 29076
Index0=         33231
# md5 sum
MD5-offset=     44
#created by cdda2wav
2.01.01a57_linux_2.6.28-gentoo-r5_ppc_7447a,-altivec-supported
11/05/09 07:38:55
#
CDINDEX_DISCID= 'x7kWW2ke0dtT4IO_V6RVoLlw5mc-'
CDDB_DISCID=    0x650b2d07
MCN=
ISRC=
#
Albumperformer= 'Indukti'
Performer=      'Indukti'
Albumtitle=     'S.U.S.A.R.'
Tracktitle=     '...and weak II'
Tracknumber=    7
Trackstart=     171364
# track length in sectors (1/75 seconds each), rest samples
Tracklength=    43230, 0
Pre-emphasis=   no
Channels=       2
Copy_permitted= once (copyright protected)
Endianess=      little
# index list
Index=          0
Index0=         -1
# md5 sum
MD5-offset=     44
MacMini test2 #

I'll look into finding firmware updates, if any.

Thanks,
Mark