[oclug]Making Audio CDs

[Dave Edwards]

On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 19:26, Vic Gedris wrote:
> Hey Dave,
> 
> My experience in recording audio CDs involves:
> 
> 1) Just taking a bunch of WAVs and putting them on a CD, with the
> standard 2-second gaps
> 
> 2) Recording live concerts onto my computer, and then making CDs with
> proper track separations (no gaps).
> 
> YOur questions are answered inline:
> 
> On 21 Nov 2002, Dave Edwards wrote:
> 
> > * TAO vs DAO (track-at-once vs disk-at-once)
> >   * The CD-Writing HOWTO says that DAO is preferable in order to
> >     avoid 2-second clicks between tracks.  However it hasn't been
> >     updated since July of 2000, and I read somewhere else that
> >     newer CD writers can handle TAO without the clicks.
> 
> I normally just use TAO, since the gaps between songs are normal.  I
> only use DAO when recording live CDs when I can't have gaps.
>

You don't hear any clicks when you use TAO?

> > * Are there any tools that take m3u files as input?
> 
> Not sure what m3u is...can't help you there...

They're standard-format playlist files, such as XMMS uses.

> > * GUI front-ends: are any of them any good for audio CDS?
> 
> I just use gcombust for regular TAO audio CDs.  For the live CDs I do, I
> piece together some manual TOC files for cdrdao, or I use this little
> script to make a quick'n'dirty TOC file:
> 

Thanks, Vic.

Dave.
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