To: Megalexxx

[Excalibur007]

Hi,
The other day, in response to one of my posts, you aked me to send you my batch file for trying to burn CDDA games. I emailed you, but I decided to post here as well. I was going to try attach it here, but then I realized I can't upload *.bat files... so I'll just type what's in my batch file:

pause
cdrecord -dev=2,0,0 speed=4 -multi -audio \cdda\track01.wav \cdda\track02.wav \cdda\track03.wav...

and so on until all my tracks are listed.
I've tried typing this many different ways. This is just one of them, but I thought it would at least give you an idea of what I'm trying to do. Do I have to set path or anything before running the batch file? I've doing different things like that, but no success yet.
If you could rearrange or correct what I'm typing in my batch file, I would REALLY appreciate it. Thank you so much for your time.

Take care,
Kevin

[Megalexxx]

Could you remind me what is your error message ?

[Excalibur007]

Hi,
It says that it cannot find cdrecord and that there is no read access for track01.wav.
This is when I use this specific batch file.

Thank you,
Kevin

[Wayne]

Short answer is that your "CDRECORD.EXE" file isn't in the directory you're working. If the program (CDRECORD) is in a different directory than the current directory, you need to either add the path to the CDRECORD such as this:

C:\dreamcast\cdrecord -dev=2,0,0 speed=4 -multi -audio \cdda\track01.wav \cdda\track02.wav \cdda\track03.wav

The other option would be to add a line prior to that line, to add a path to the directory such as this:

PATH=%path%;c:\dreamcast
cdrecord -dev=2,0,0 speed=4 -multi -audio \cdda\track01.wav \cdda\track02.wav \cdda\track03.wav

[Megalexxx]

Idem for your wav files.

In fact, your OS tries to find all the files you need from your current directory (here, the directory where you launch your bat file). If it can't find them, it will search in the "path".

So, as said Wayne, either you specify each time where to find all your stuff :
"C:\dreamcast\cdrecord -dev=2,0,0 speed=4 -multi -audio C:\dreamcast\cdda\track01.wav C:\dreamcast\cdda\track02.wav C:\dreamcast\cdda\track03.wav ..."

or your put all your files in your "C:\dreamcast" directory (including cdrecord.exe, your bat file, your \CDDA directory, ...).

The 2nd way is the easiest...

[Wayne]

By the way, Megalexxx, my apologies for answering this question before you had a chance to, seeing as how it was addressed specifically to you...

[Megalexxx]

No problem Wayne : this forum is here to help people.

[Excalibur007]

Hi,
Thanks again for your responses. Well, everything is in the proper directory and I've already tried setting the path and including the full path to the wave files before. I tried those several times in several ways before making the 1st post. : |

Last night, I tried shortening the names of my tracks to just "01" "02" etc, in hope of fitting more into the command line, but that didn't work to well either. I tried to type everything in without doing it as a batch file just to see what kind of response I'd get. (if it would work, or be the same as the batch file).
Here's what it says:

C:\SBOOT>cdrecord -dev=2,0,0 speed=4 -multi -audio \cdda\01.wav \cdda\02.wav \cdda\03.wav \cdda\04.wav \cdda\05.wav \cdda\06.wav (Then I press enter. This is as much as I could put in the command line)
/SBOOT/CDRECORD.EXE No such file or directory. No read acess for '\cdda\01.wav'.

C:\SBOOT>

So, this response is the same as when I use my batch file. Keep in mind that cdrecord along with my "cdda" directory and everything else is in this "SBOOT" directory. I have used cdrecord just like this many times to burn many of my non-cdda games... but for some reason, when I try to it with cdda, it says it can't find cdrecord. Yes, I've even tried putting in the entire path and/or setting the path.
Right now, I can put in the same command:

C:\SBOOT>cdrecord -dev=2,0,0 speed=4 -multi -audio audio.raw

or

C:\SBOOT>cdrecord -dev=2,0,0 speed=4 -xa1 data.iso

or

C:\SBOOT>cdrecord -dev=2,0,0 speed=4 -multi -xa1 data.raw

and I can burn a game fine. Cdrecord is there... so, why is it not finding it when I add a cdda track?

This is why I asked what a good command line would be for a batch file. I followed Echelon's tutorial to the letter and it doesn't work. What does work?
One more thing... before I burn these cdda tracks, is it really neccessary to make 3 dummy 4-second wav files and the reall cdda music to start at the 4th wav track? This is what the tutorial says, but it doesn't give the correct way to do it, so I just did it another way, but I wonder about the purpose of it.

Thank you so much for your time. I really want to get moving with these cdda games. I've made pretty much everything else in my library self-boot and VGA compatible, now I'm stuck on these.

Thanks again,
Kevin

[Wayne]

I don't know why yours isn't working... Here's a batchfile I used last year and it worked just fine, this is actually one single line and is not broken as it may (or may not) appear in this message.

cdrecord -dev=0,1,0 -multi -audio cdda\track_01.wav cdda\track_02.wav cdda\track_03.wav cdda\track_04.wav cdda\track_05.wav cdda\track_06.wav cdda\track_07.wav cdda\track_08.wav cdda\track_09.wav cdda\track_10.wav cdda\track_11.wav cdda\track_12.wav cdda\track_13.wav cdda\track_14.wav cdda\track_15.wav cdda\track_16.wav cdda\track_17.wav speed=8

[Megalexxx]

If you're using CDRecord under Linux, it seems it might not work properly sometimes. Have a look here : http://www.linuxpowered.com/archive/...g-HOWTO-5.html

If you're trying under Windows, maybe another burning programs is in conflict with CDRecord (I've heard of EasyCd Creator...).

I recommand you download the latest version of CDRecord.

Otherwise, burn your CDDAs with another program, and then finish fallowing Echelon's tutorial.

You only need "dummy wav files" if you want to put your musics at specific places. For example, if you want your 1st wav file to be read as the 3rd one, you'll need to put 2 dummy wav files...

[Excalibur007]

Hi,
Thanks for the help guys. So, can I make a self-bootable CD using Nero to burn the CDDA tracks? What settings would I use?
Multisession, etc?
I can only use Nero for now, until I get the newest Disk Juggler, because the slowest my CD burner can record at is 4x. This means I can't use CDRWIN, DJ 3.0 or anything because they are limited to 1x for the trial versions. I don't want to buy them because I already purchased the FULL version of Nero 5.5.

If I can make a self-boot CD using Nero for the CDDA tracks, I'll be all set!
Any advice will be appreciated and put an end to me pulling out my hair.... (for now). ; )

Take care,
Kevin

P.S.
I'm using Windows 98, and I don't have adaptec installed... just Nero, CDRWIN, and DJ 3.0.

[Excalibur007]

Hi,
Wayne, your batch file seems to want to work (thank you very much!), but I have another problem now... it says my track_05.wav has inappropriate audio coding.
How would I change the coding? I converted an mp3 to wav with the same program as the rest of the wav files and used the same settings. What next?
Would recording the tracks with Nero eliminate this problem? If so, what settings would I use in Nero to record the CDDA tracks for making a self-boot disk?

Thanks,
Kevin

[Megalexxx]

You can burn your sessions using any program if you set the good modes.

I set the "pad" option for my CDDA burnings :
cdrecord -dev=x,x,x -multi -audio -PAD -speed=12 @CDDA.TXT

[Wayne]

Chances are your Track 5 is not 44.1kHz, 16-bit Stereo.

If you can get your hands on a sound editor such as Cool Edit (other newer editors are available now, but Cool Edit is the one I'm familiar with), you can change the sampling rate, convert mono to stereo, change the bitrate and everything else that may be necessary to bring a WAV file into compliance with CD Audio standards. Be sure you listen to the newly created file after the modifications, and be sure it's 44.1kHz 16-bit Stereo, before you try to burn the disc, otherwise it may sound like chipmunks once it's on the disc.

[Excalibur007]

Hi guys!
Thanks again so much for your help. I've succeeded in burning my first CDDA disk! I used Wayne's batch file and had to use -pad. I got an error saying something about -pad, so I typed cdrecord -help and read about. That solved that problem.
Now, I'll tell you what I did. I wanted to play 4x4 Evo with the custom trucks, but everyone said you couldn't... so I backed up my original 4x4 Evo, extracted all the files, swapped out some of the wav files for some of my own, edited the DCPOD.INI file in the 4x4 system folder, inserted the *.pod files, burned my disk.... and voila!!!
I have a copy of 4x4 Evo with custom trucks!!!
Some of the custom trucks don't work... that will take a little more experimenting to find out why, and the *.pod tracks cause the game to reset about half way through the load when you go to race. (maybe a memory issue??? I don't know).

Anyway, I'm very excited that I finally got this to work, and now I can move on to self-booting and making VGA-compatible, the rest of my CDDA games.

Thanks again guys!
Kevin