Noisy audio CD with cdrecord

[Paul Smith]

On 1/12/06, Amadeus W. M. <amadeus84 at cablespeed.com> wrote:
> > I am using the command
> >
> > cdrecord dev=/dev/cdrom -eject speed=2 -pad -audio *.wav
> >
> > to create an audio CD from wav files, but all I get is a noisy CD,
> > when played. Any ideas?
>
> The command you're using looks right. I only got a noisy cd as you
> describe when I (miss)used the swab flag. Do a man cdrecord and search for
> swab, and see if that helps.
>
> Are those really wav files? Can you play them e.g. with
>
> play file.wav
>
> ?

Thanks, Amadeus. My wav files do not play with play:

$ play track01.wav
sox: Failed reading track01.wav: WAVE: RIFF header not found

but play fine with mplayer.

Paul