From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 3 9:19:12 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA75C37B405 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 09:19:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.dubium.com (h24-78-225-134.vn.shawcable.net [24.78.225.134]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B39943EE5 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 09:19:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joe@dubium.com) Received: (qmail 39533 invoked by uid 7794); 3 Jan 2003 17:20:21 -0000 Received: from joe@dubium.com by fafner.dubium.com by uid 7791 with qmail-scanner-1.14 (spamassassin: 2.43. Clear:. Processed in 0.075101 secs); 03 Jan 2003 17:20:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO wotan.dubium.com) ([192.168.0.1]) (envelope-sender ) by 0 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 3 Jan 2003 17:20:21 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: joe To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: audacity is creating (??) unwritable-by-cdrecord wave files Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 09:20:04 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200301030920.04441.joe@dubium.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As the subject says I am creating and manipulating wav files of audio tap recordings. The extent of manipulation is to join sides A & B into one file and do some noise reduction cleanup, and write the file in wav format. then attempting to write the file to cd with cdrecord cdrecord -v -eject speed=12 -pad -audio file.wav results in the following error. cdrecord: Inappropriate audio coding Googling on the error gets me this "solution" After some poking around I found that these files are often mono (one channel) and that the following conversion makes them writable by both cdrecord and xcdroast: > sox infile.wav -c 2 outfile.wav split Can someone explain the problem behind thise solution as I'd much rather fix this in writing the file from audacity. Thanks, ------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Sotham To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message