Using brasero to burn audio cd
 

Running Slackware-14.2/x86_64 and brasero-3.12.2. I just installed brasero and, as a brand-new user, have a couple of questions.

1. When the program loads it displays a watch icon for the pointer. I don't know what's going on but that icon doesn't change.

The directory holding *.cdda.wav files I want to burn to a cd-r is shown by 'du -sh' to consume 529M of disk space. The cd-r has a stated capacity of 650M:

2a. Why might brasero tell me the cd-r does not have sufficient capacity for the cdda.wav files?

2b. What should I do about this since the disk is standard size? Should I re-code the files to .flac or do something else?

I'm really new to digital audio (other than as a listener) so I'm open to all advice, suggestions, and recommendations.

Because they are too big for the disk maybe?

What is the size of the files and what size optical disk are you using?

An an aside, I've always found K3B, which comes with Slackware, superior to Brasero in every way. I've had K3B successfully burn to disks that Brasero refused even to recognize.

frankbell,

I spent several hours trying to get k3b to work, but failed. Brasero did work ... running as root. It kept telling me I had no permissions to access that device (/dev/sr0), but I'm a member of the cdrom group.

The total size of all .cdda.wav files is 529M. The cd-r disk I kept trying to use is 650M, but brasero told me it's too small. I replaced it with a Philips 700M cd-r and brasero wrote all tracks to the disk.

The pointer remains a watch, but I can live with that.

Thanks for commenting,

Rich

I have occasionally encountered a permissions issue with K3B on Slackware, in which it ran for root, but not for user. I was able to figure it out, but it was so long ago I forget what I did:(, but I think it had something to do with chmodding the executable.

Try starting K3B (command k3b) from the command line. It may throw some useful error messages to the terminal.

I can't speak to Brasero's complaints about the file size, but I have this from the shot in a dark department: since these are *.wav files, did you choose the "burn audio CD" (whatever Brasero calls it) option?

As I remember I had permission problems with k3b. I think it was the executable that was causing the problem. You should be able to find the executable by looking at the properties of the menu item or a find operation or whereis.

Major issue with K3B is it can't handle non Latin-1 tags. If I bring in a batch of flac files with Kanji/Hiragana titles or artists, it just replaces them all with underscores. Which means the CD-TEXT will be all messed up.

But this all used to work a few years ago. Linux was far better for writing CD/DVDs than MSWindows, but it looks like there's a lot of breakage here as well as with other programs. (should be able to do this from a command line as well, with a CUE and FLAC file, but everyone wants you to convert the FLAC to WAV first).