cdrecord syntax

[Nils Kassube]

Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> 2013/11/16 Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net>
> > Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> > > Trying to burn three files with cdrecord. They are wav files,
> > > which
> > > shouldn't matter since I'm burning a DATA CD, not an AUDIO CD.
> > > 
> > > Here's what I tried:
> > > 
> > > $ cdrecord -dao dev=/dev/sr0 -data File1.wav File2.wav File3.wav
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > wodim: Inappropriate audio coding in 'File1.wav'.
> > > $
> > > 
> > > It's that ”Inappropriate audio coding” message that bothers me.
> > > Why
> > > does it even care about the audio coding? I'm trying to burn a
> > > DATA
> > > cd here. The file is a 24 bit 44.1 kHz wav file, but that
> > > shouldn't
> > > matter for a data cd.
> > > 
> > > So obviously it thinks I'm trying to burn an Audio cd, right? So
> > > how
> > > to I force it to burn a Data cd?
> > 
> > If you want to burn a data CD you should first create an iso image
> > with mkisofs. But why don't you just use a GUI tool like k3b or
> > whatever comes with Unity? It would be much easier that way.
> 
> Brasero comes with Unity. There are a lot of things I could do, but
> that wasn't what I asked.
> I'm not sure why it is important why I ask a question. Maybe I just
> want to learn? Maybe there are hundreds of reasons, maybe there are
> none what so ever. Why does this matter?
> But I'm going to try to answer anyway; I don't want to be rude or
> anything…

No, it doesn't really matter why you want to use it.

> I work with a project that needs a certain task to be done over and
> over again, exactly the same way. Instead of opening Brasero, drag
> files and so on, I only want to right click the files in Nautilus,
> click Nautilus Actions and start my script from there. The script
> should then just do its work
[...]
> I doubt that it will be ”easier” to do what I want with Brasero or
> k3b.

Thanks for the explanation. In this case it isn't easier using k3b or 
brasero.

> Anyway, you say that I need to make an ISO first. So, when I have done
> that, do I still need ”-data”? If not, what is it for?

Yes, you still need the -data option. See [1] for an old but AFAIK still 
valid description.


Nils

[1] <http://tldp.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.1>