Bug 45940

Summary:	burncd(1) missing info
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	Jacob Rhoden <jrhoden>
Component:	Books & Articles	Assignee:	freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me	CC:	jrhoden
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Jacob Rhoden 2002-12-02 23:10:07 UTC

Hi,
When I was learning to use burncd, it forced a question to freebsd-questions,
to save other people time the man page could be updated with this information.
Currently, if you are burning a data cd, there is a comment at the end of
the man page explaining that the data track must be made using a port called
mkisofs. I assumed the audio format must be in wav, because there is no such
comment for audio tracks. Using wav format does not work.

Fix: 

A possible ammendment to the last paragraph in the EXAMPLES section could be:

  Audio tracks are assumed to be in raw format. The utility CopyAudio(1) which
  is found in the 'afsp' port can be used to do this.

I suggest that language, because the man page sates almost the exact same thing
when detailing how to make iso format files. Hope this helps.
How-To-Repeat: Get a new person to try and burn an audio cd (:

Comment 1 f3z 2002-12-08 22:55:51 UTC

I'll leave all text of previous posts in for Soren's benefit

I think I searched for 'burncd' on www.freebsd.org and didnt find anything
useful, so hadn't read the handbook, the place i found help was on google,
thats why I found that 'CopyAudio' command.

You are right, i probably should have picked up that you need to convert wav
files.. but i didnt (:  I thought perhaps because it had a specific direction
to where to look to find out how to make iso format images, it might be a
good idea to do that for wav.

If you guys dont think it needs to be thats fine (: just trying to be hel=
pful.

Best Regards,
Jacob


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Comment 2 Tom Rhodes freebsd_committer

2006-10-08 19:24:11 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

The handbook along with burncd.1 seems to cover burning CDs extensively, 
there should be no reason to include mention of every port which can assist 
in this process.  Thanks for the submission!