cdrecord syntax

[Nils Kassube]

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.


Nils