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[Net Llama!]

I won't profess to completely understand it either,but i do know that i've
always gone with the gcombust defaults and they worked.

On Tue, 21 May 2002, Tim Wunder wrote:
> On 5/21/2002 10:56 AM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote:
> <snip>
> >>>>
> >>>> Then what's the secret to getting a good audio CD burned with
> >>>> gcombust?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Secret?  There isn't one really.  First go to the "Audio Files"
> <snip>
>
> >> My problem is the "Swab audio" option in the Misc Options section.
> >> What is it, and should the damn button be pressed or not? In other
> >> words, how am I supposed to know whether the audio data is in
> >> "byte-swapped (little endian) order"? WTF is "byte-swapped (little
> >> endian) order" anyway? Better yet, why do I even have to know?
> >
> >
> > According to the cdrecord man page:
> >
> >
>
> <snip>
>
> Yeah, yeah, I READ that. Doesn't mean I follow it (I fairly dim, ya know...)
>
> > recorder.  You only need the -swab flag if your data stream is in
> > Intel (little-endian) byte order.
>
> Is my data stream in "Intel (little-endian) byte order"? How should I know?
>
> > Note that the verbose output of cdrecord will show you if swappingis
> > necessary to make the byte order of the input data fit the required
> > byte order of the recorder.  Cdrecord will not show you if the -swab
> > flag was actually present for a track.
> >
>
> OK, so cdrecord should be telling me somehow? Should I just leave the button unpressed? It seems to be pressed by default. Shouldn't the software know whether -swab is required?
>
> OK, tonight, I'll try again to burn audio with gcombust to see what I get. And, I'll use a CD-RW ;-). I won't be able to use it in half my CD players, but at least I should be able to figger out the damn -swab flag crap.

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