Here's the deal. Ive used k3b for some time, and havent had too many problems with cd burning. But for as long as i can remember using k3b, there has always been problems burning audio cds. It used to work most of the time (burning working discs), but recently (basically as of version .11.xx and on) it ruins every audio cd. I have yet to have a successful audio disc with k3b in the last long while. i used to be able to burn some successful discs, and some not, but now they are all bad.

Here's the problem. I burn an audio cd either from mp3 or from copying an existing audio cd, either one it doesnt matter. k3b will burn it fine with no errors, and it would appear that everything worked perfectly. I can play the disc in my computer's drive with kscd or something and it plays fine. But the disc is almost completely corrupt in any outside player. Take my car stereo for example: i put in the disc and it loads fine and starts to play track one. everything sounds great. but as soon as track one is over, it moves onto track two with two possibilities. either track two will play (sounding normal) but the display will go all screwed up (ie, starts counting backwards from 60 seconds, and as soon as it hits 0, jumps to like 26 seconds or some random number and keeps counting down from there (just the display mind you, the audio does no jumping) until the song is over). Or the second option, which is it doesnt play track two at all...it will sit there blinking trying to read the track and will never do anything. i have to manually eject the disc. in either senario, tracks 3 and beyond dont work (sit there blinking trying to read them but cant).

i have tried about every possible burning option combination, every writing mode, tried not writing cd-text, writing track-at-once instead of DAO. nothing seems to help. I also have two burners: a cd-burner and a dvd-burner. both drives produce the same result. If it helps at all, i had to go into windows to burn all audio cd's because i couldnt get them to work in linux, so my computer can burn non-corrupt (excluding the fact they were burned in windows, an obvious corruption) audio cd's.

Thanks for any info on this at all. I really appreciate it.

PS: sorry for the long post, but i dont really know how to explain this problem in short terms...

Can you post the makes of you CD and DVD burners. I used to have problems with k3b for audio as well and choosing generic-mmc or generic-mmc-raw drivers for my burner and writing using track at once instead of disk at once and lowering the speed of my burner worked for all audio CD's. I don't have to do this now using the newer version of k3b.

okay, here is the output of hdparm -i for my cd drives:

thats probably far more information than you were looking for, but it may be useful. Both drives are made by I/O Magic and are pretty generic.

Thanks for the reply.