I won't profess to completely understand it either,but i do know that i've always gone with the gcombust defaults and they worked.
On Tue, 21 May 2002, Tim Wunder wrote: > On 5/21/2002 10:56 AM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote: > <snip> > >>>> > >>>> Then what's the secret to getting a good audio CD burned with > >>>> gcombust? > >>> > >>> > >>> Secret? There isn't one really. First go to the "Audio Files" > <snip> > > >> My problem is the "Swab audio" option in the Misc Options section. > >> What is it, and should the damn button be pressed or not? In other > >> words, how am I supposed to know whether the audio data is in > >> "byte-swapped (little endian) order"? WTF is "byte-swapped (little > >> endian) order" anyway? Better yet, why do I even have to know? > > > > > > According to the cdrecord man page: > > > > > > <snip> > > Yeah, yeah, I READ that. Doesn't mean I follow it (I fairly dim, ya know...) > > > recorder. You only need the -swab flag if your data stream is in > > Intel (little-endian) byte order. > > Is my data stream in "Intel (little-endian) byte order"? How should I know? > > > Note that the verbose output of cdrecord will show you if swappingis > > necessary to make the byte order of the input data fit the required > > byte order of the recorder. Cdrecord will not show you if the -swab > > flag was actually present for a track. > > > > OK, so cdrecord should be telling me somehow? Should I just leave the button >unpressed? It seems to be pressed by default. Shouldn't the software know whether >-swab is required? > > OK, tonight, I'll try again to burn audio with gcombust to see what I get. And, I'll >use a CD-RW ;-). I won't be able to use it in half my CD players, but at least I >should be able to figger out the damn -swab flag crap. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
