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genericaf

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Registered: 2016-03-25

Posts: 17

Cannot Burn Audio CD using cdrecord and CUE Sheet

My use case is almost as simple as it gets. I want to burn a few WAVE files to a CD with track titles. I'm using

cdrecord -v -pad speed=1 dev=/dev/sr0 -dao -swab -text -audio cuefile=mycuefile.cue

with this CUE file:

TITLE "My CD"
FILE "01.wav" WAVE
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    TITLE "Track One"
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "02.wav" WAVE
  TRACK 02 AUDIO
    TITLE "Track Two"
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "03.wav" WAVE
  TRACK 03 AUDIO
    TITLE "Track Three"
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "04.wav" WAVE
  TRACK 04 AUDIO
    TITLE "Track Four"
    INDEX 01 00:00:00

However, with my car's CD player I cannot jump from track to track. It does show me a list of all tracks with the respective titles but only the first track will actually start playing. When playing track 1 and reaching its end, it will actually continue with track 2 but the time stamp will jump to -99:59. I tried adding INDEX 00 00:00:00 before each INDEX 01 declaration but that did not help. What am I missing?

xerxes_

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Registered: 2018-04-29

Posts: 846

Re: Cannot Burn Audio CD using cdrecord and CUE Sheet

Maybe you need to correct in CUE file indexes times, like here:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/question … rd-212435/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue_sheet_(computing)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 60,813

Re: Cannot Burn Audio CD using cdrecord and CUE Sheet

nb. that he's burning multiple files, what's not the default use of a cuesheet.
Just burning some wav's into a CDDA should work w/o any .cue, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Optica … n_audio_CD but he might be interested in the CD Text (see, a looooooooooong time ago, when car CD-players were a thing, then-modern cd-players could also display some letters in a 7-segment LCD to tell you what you were listening to. Not sure whether that should™ be relevant in this case, because your eyes belong onto the road!)

@genericaf, have you ever considered to upgrade the system?
It's 2022, you could eg. go for a cd-player w/ mp3 support

(When there's one thing I won't miss, it's trying to play a CDDA on a bumpy road…)

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