howto burn CDs..... slower

french tony · Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2003 1:22 pm Post subject: howto burn CDs..... slower

I use gcombust for burning cds, and i never any problems with it.
I usually don't bother setting the speed, because in my experience gcombust (well cdrecord) chooses it itself. so with speed at 2 or 32, I still usually burn @ 8 speed.
The thing is i _want_ to burn at 1 speed.
Is that possible, would using cdrecord from the command line give me more control?
BTW, this is for burning an audio cd.

zhenlin · Veteran Joined: 09 Nov 2002 Posts: 1361

cdrecord speed=1

french tony · Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2003 1:53 pm Post subject:

Ok. since I want to burn an audio cd, I think I should use cdrdao.
I'll see if I control the speed better too...

french tony · Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2003 3:54 pm Post subject:

right. well I knew about
cdrecord speed=1
but that still doesn't work. minimum speed i get is 8
same applys with cdrdao.
is it possible that some burners only support certain speed settings?

mine only seem to do 8, 16, 24, 32

I suppose not many people need or want to burn at 1 speed these days.

NiGHTSFTP · n00b Joined: 11 Oct 2002 Posts: 22

Evangelion · Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2003 7:47 pm Post subject:

Why do you want to burn at 1x?

french tony · Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2003 9:28 pm Post subject:

it is for burning audio (CDA).
funny things can happen when burning cd's at > 8x. The audio quality can deteriorate really quickly.

I am finishing the mastering process of a few tracks I recorded for a friend. now the master is going to be pressed, So you do need the _Best_ quality you can get.
I usually use a HBB industry standard hardware cdrecorder for this kind of job, but I don't have acces to it right now...