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Newer page: version 17 Last edited on Monday, December 22, 2003 10:59:44 pm by DanielLawson Revert
Older page: version 16 Last edited on Monday, December 22, 2003 3:38:08 pm by AlastairPorter Revert
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 It seems a lot of the tools are still playing catchup with the cdwriting interface in 2.6. IDE-SCSI is either deprecated or just plain doesn't work, I've not yet established which. cdrecord has support for ATAPI, and it seems to work now from the command line, but its not so good from xcdroast. k3b claims to only understand the IDE-SCSI interface. Not tried eroaster or gcombust yet. 
  
 ''As horible as it is, XCDroast at least claims that it can burn using 2.6 + cdrecord, have you tried that? -- AlastairPorter'' 
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+It does indeed work, however I've never had much luck with getting it to write audio CDS correctly. Having to wait 30 seconds for it to detect my cdwriter (known bug with xcdroast / atapi ) is also a problem. And, once more, its just a front end. I don't really see how using a GUI frontend over cdrdao or cdrecord will magically solve my problems. The exception is of course, if they are using command line options to those programs that I don't know about / aren't using, however I've tried a lot of things to no avail. I'll give them all another shot next CD I write, and when I have more blanks (15 or so wasted so far - when I write something with cdrdao, it seems to write the leadin and nothing else, yet claim to write everything correctly )  
  
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 Having written this attempt to CD, it seems pretty good. I don't have the turntable hooked up to the stereo to compare the quality, but there are no pops, very little crackle. There is some residual noise still, and the gain is still too low, which makes the noise somewhat worse. When I amplified it before processing, it was amplified to the highest gain possible without clipping - however that was based (I think) on the highest amplitude seen, which was any number of the pops that occured there were about 10 - 15 times louder than the rest of the track. I'm not sure if this will improve the effect of the noise reduction algorithms, or if it will screw things up totally, but its probably worth a shot. 
  
 Selecting a better noise sample may also help, although I suspect its about as good as I can get. I'll move onto the next vinyl for now, which I know is in worse condition in some ways (at least one scratch bad enough to cause the needle to get stuck), but may have better properties overall. And the other thing to do is to try an external amplifer/equaliser unit, although I only have the stereo the turntable is connected to, which isn't overly great. I'm open to offers :)