Noisy audio CD with cdrecord

[Amadeus W. M.]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:28:28 +0000, Paul Smith wrote:

> On 1/12/06, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > I am using the command
>> > >
>> > > cdrecord dev=/dev/cdrom -eject speed=2 -pad -audio *.wav
>> > >
>> > > to create an audio CD from wav files, but all I get is a noisy CD,
>> > > when played. Any ideas?
>> >
>> > The command you're using looks right. I only got a noisy cd as you
>> > describe when I (miss)used the swab flag. Do a man cdrecord and search for
>> > swab, and see if that helps.
>> >
>> > Are those really wav files? Can you play them e.g. with
>> >
>> > play file.wav
>> >
>> > ?
>>
>> Thanks, Amadeus. My wav files do not play with play:
>>
>> $ play track01.wav
>> sox: Failed reading track01.wav: WAVE: RIFF header not found
>>
>> but play fine with mplayer.
> 
> My wav files were created with
> 
> lame file.mp3 file.wav
> 
> However, with the command
> 
> lame --decode file.mp3 file.wav
> 
> the wav files produced work fine with play. Furthermore, the command
> 
> cdrecord dev=/dev/cdrom -eject speed=2 -pad -audio *.wav
> 
> creates a fine audio CD. My problem is finally solved!
> 
> Paul

No kidding! When you first did

lame file.mp3 file.wav

you encoded to mp3 a file which was already mp3. So even though you called
the output file.wav it was a doubly encoded mp3. Not a .wav file.