[Debburn-devel] Wodim and Cuefiles

[Steve McIntyre]

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 09:17:31PM +0100, Harry Williams wrote:
>Umm... Sorry for intruding, but after the Ubuntu Forum and Launchpad,
>there's no-where else to go...
>
>If this is a totally inappropriate place to ask, I'm sure you'll tell me
>with the acidic curtness, that only a programmer interrupted can muster.

Hi Harry,

Sorry to take so long to get back to you... :-(

>I've a 500 MB wav file...
>
>First I run:
>
>shntool pad Meddle.wav
>
>and get Meddle-padded.wav with an audio data length divisible by 2352.
>
>Then import to Audacity, with the  00:00+frames, snap-to, 44100Hz and
>16-bit...
>
>I drop the track markers...
>
>Export them to lables.txt and convert to a cuefile with lable2cue...
>
>Then I try and run:
>
>wodim -dao cuefile=Meddle-padded.cue -dev1,0,0
>
>and I get told to get lost because the data length is wrong...
>
>Bad audio track size 486969884
>
>But running:
>
>shntool info Meddle-padded.wav
>
>tells me that the audio data has been nicely and properly arranged...
>
>Data size: 486969840 bytes
>Chunk size: 486969876 bytes
>Total size (chunk size + 8): 486969884 bytes
>Actual file size: 486969884
>
>but wodim is taking the length as Actual file size, which won't work...

Hmmm. What's in the cue file itself? If it's referring to a wav-format
file, then wodim will be expecting the input to be in wav format,
unpadded.

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve at einval.com
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