Burning Audio [inspired by Godwin's howto].

Burning the audio tracks to the CD
Burning audio to a CD is very simple. All you have to do is use the -audio command line parameter of cdrecord. If you don't have this installed, download it here:

Now, cd to whatever directory you ripped your audio tracks. Enter this line:

# cdrecord dev=ATAPI:0,1,0 speed=4 fs=4m -v -eject -audio track*wav

"-audiotrack*.wav" would be the name(s) of the tracks you'd ripped. If you'd named each file differently, you would either enter them individually, or change "-audio track*.wav" to "*.wav". I've done this without hassle.

For quality puropses, you want a smaller than usual FIFO for writing a CDDA. This is because some audio CD drives have difficulty tracking CDDA's which have been written at high speed. This has happened to me on different drives -- good or bad.

Keep in mind that no audio CD decks (as opposed to computer CD-ROM drives) will be able to read your new CDDA if you burned it onto a CDRW disk.But sometimes an audio CD Recorder can read a CDRW, though it's not necessarily common.

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