burncd question

[Marc Fonvieille]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 08:40:50AM +0100, list at arameus.net wrote:
> 
> Greetings all,
> I have used the burncd tool many a time to burn audio cd's from wav's,
> however recently I have been having problems.
> 
> I have recorded some wav files using audio/audacity. A nice lil
> multitrack editor. All I want to do is burn them to cd. So if I do this
> (as I always have):
> 
> burncd -s max audio file.wav fixate
> 
> It does indeed burn a cd. But the audio is much faster than it should be.
> Why is this? I have tryed this on two machines running
> freebsd-5.2-release and they both have the same output. My wav is 32 bit
> at a sample rate of 44100. I have also tryed converting to a 16 bit wav,
> but the outcome is the same. Is there something I have overlooked?
>

burncd supports "raw PCM", the wav header should be a cause of problem.
Try the command given at bottom of 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-mp3.html
this should "normalize" your audio file.

Marc