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Paul Davis wrote:

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> On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 03:55 +0900, Joel Roth wrote:

>

>> On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 05:29:57PM -0600, Gary Nored wrote:

>>

>>> I have a problem burning standard audio CDs. On Ubuntu (Dapper Drake),

>>> using K3b I am able to burn all variety of disks (wavs, mp3s, etc) but

>>> when I create a standard audio CD I get dropouts. They do not sound like

>>> a disconnect, but rather more like a controlled fade, followed

>>> immediately by a fade to full volume. The whole dropout usually lasts

>>> 1/4 sec or so, though occasionally a dropout is not restored for the

>>> remainder of the track. The format of the source material is irrelevant.

>>> (PS. The drive was taken from an XP box where it creates audio CDs

>>> perfectly.)

>>>

>>> I've looked about for answers, but have never heard this symptom

>>> described elsewhere.

>>>

>>> Does anyone have any ideas?

>>>

>> Only to try another burning application, such as

>> cdrecord to see the problem arises.

>>

>

> AFAIK, *all* cd burning apps use cdrecord. they are just GUI wrappers

> around cdrecord's functionality.

>

> this sounds like an issue with system configuration. can you try running

> k3b as root and see if the same thing happens?

>

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>

That does it. works perfectly running as root. Spits out a lot of

complaints (missing database, etc), but works correctly nonetheless.

Do you have any idea of what sort of configuration errors I might check for?
Thanks,
Gary