"Pye, Adam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked:
> I've been trying to get CDRECORD to burn a CD made of multiple WAV files in
> DAO mode without any success. The WAV files were extracted "exactly" and
> are not "padded" to the sector size (2352 bytes) to avoid any "clicks" at
> the end of each track. When I try to use CDRECORD, however, it claims that
> it can't burn the tracks unless I "-pad" them. This almost defeats the
> purpose of DAO mode (I don't want 1/74th of a second of silenct b/t tracks),
> so I was wondering if there's a way to do this. All CD burning programs in
> Windows that I've tried can do this fine by just selecting all the tracks
> and choosing DAO mode. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks!
>
> Here's the command line I'm using:
>
> "cdrecord -v dev=0,1,0 -dao *.wav"
The total output written to a CD must be a multiple of 2352, because
you must write some number of physical sectors. In DAO mode I am less
clear why padding would be needed, assuming that all the wav files are
concatenated into a single "track" generated on-the-fly. I don't know if
cdrecord is able to do this.
I haven't looked at audio tools in a while, but there are certainly
some which can concatenate the tracks. Unfortunately this doubles your
CD image disk requirements.
If you are using this to generate some kind of specialty audio disk,
you may have to use the tools. The CD audio format was designed for
human beings as the final destination, and avoiding a few ms of silence
was (and is) not a priority.
Are you sure the DOS tools are doing what you think they are? They may
be dumping in that bit of silence and you don't hear it... Since most
CDs do have silence to denote the change between data sets (to the human
again), this is a non-issue for intended use.
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