Noisy audio CD with cdrecord

[Paul Smith]

On 1/13/06, Amadeus W. M. <amadeus84 at cablespeed.com> wrote:
> > My wav files were created with
> >
> > lame file.mp3 file.wav
> >
> > However, with the command
> >
> > lame --decode file.mp3 file.wav
> >
> > the wav files produced work fine with play. Furthermore, the command
> >
> > cdrecord dev=/dev/cdrom -eject speed=2 -pad -audio *.wav
> >
> > creates a fine audio CD. My problem is finally solved!
>
> No kidding! When you first did
>
> lame file.mp3 file.wav
>
> you encoded to mp3 a file which was already mp3. So even though you called
> the output file.wav it was a doubly encoded mp3. Not a .wav file.

You have just made me laugh about myself, Amadeus!

Paul