Hi, mick crane wrote. > It has to be CD as a person doesn't have access to a computer or anything so > I thought about sending them a cd player and story discs.
Then let's achieve it. If the GUI programs are defiant then we can force success by command line. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For testing burn programs before buying the player you could let them make a CD from your intended input files and let cdrskin inspect it. The following run also creates a binary file cdtext.dat as wodim and cdrecord would do too: $ cdrskin dev=/dev/sr0 -vvv -toc ... ... quite a lot of messages because of -vvv which we need to see the CD-TEXT ... ... first: 1 last 3 track: 1 lba: 0 ( 0) 00:02:00 adr: 1 control: 0 mode: 0 track: 2 lba: 2682 ( 10728) 00:37:57 adr: 1 control: 0 mode: 0 track: 3 lba: 5364 ( 21456) 01:13:39 adr: 1 control: 0 mode: 0 track:lout lba: 8046 ( 32184) 01:49:21 adr: 1 control: 0 mode: -1 CD-TEXT data from CD Lead-in: 0 : 80 00 00 00 J o y f u l N i g h t f0 f7 1 : 80 00 01 0c s 00 S o n g o f J o 43 1c 2 : 80 01 02 0a y 00 H u m p t y D u m 43 f9 3 : 80 02 03 0a p t y 00 M e e O w w w 24 72 4 : 80 03 04 08 w 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 6e af 5 : 81 00 05 00 U n i t e d C a t O 30 2c 6 : 81 00 06 0c r c h e s t r a 00 F e l 76 f7 7 : 81 01 07 03 i x a n d T h e P ee 0f 8 : 81 01 08 0f u r r s 00 C a t w a l k 6a 14 9 : 81 02 09 07 B e a u t i e s 00 M i 97 04 10 : 81 03 0a 02 a K i t t e n 00 00 00 00 b2 c3 11 : 82 00 0b 00 V a r i o u s S o n g 7a b8 12 : 82 00 0c 0c w r i t e r s 00 F r i e b9 0d 13 : 82 01 0d 04 d r i c h S c h i l l e1 1c 14 : 82 01 0e 0f e r 00 M o t h e r G o c6 0a 15 : 82 02 0f 09 o s e 00 M i a K i t t 60 ff 16 : 82 03 10 08 e n 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 99 fb 17 : 83 00 11 00 V a r i o u s C o m p 25 e0 18 : 83 00 12 0c o s e r s 00 L u d w i g e2 a2 19 : 83 01 13 06 v a n B e e t h o v a1 38 20 : 83 01 14 0f e n 00 u n k n o w n 00 M d5 e5 21 : 83 03 15 01 i a K i t t e n 00 00 00 15 2a 22 : 84 00 16 00 T o m C a t 00 T o m 7b 23 23 : 84 01 17 04 C a t 00 09 00 M i a K i bf 92 24 : 84 03 18 06 t t e n 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 57 0a 25 : 85 00 19 00 F o r a l l o u r 1f 58 26 : 85 00 1a 0c f a n s 00 F r i t z a 9e 0c 27 : 85 01 1b 07 n d L o u i e w e r 90 f8 28 : 85 01 1c 0f e p u n k s 00 P l u c 24 fa 29 : 85 02 1d 04 k t h e g o o s e 00 20 a0 30 : 85 03 1e 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1a a6 31 : 86 00 1f 00 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 00 00 1e 98 32 : 87 00 20 00 00 05 F e l i n e c l a 23 c0 33 : 87 00 21 0a s s i c m u s i c 00 00 be 33 34 : 8d 00 22 00 T h i s i s n o t 2a c8 35 : 8d 00 23 0c t o b e s h o w n dc 4f 36 : 8d 00 24 0f b y C D p l a y e r d3 df 37 : 8d 00 25 0f s 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 95 8b 38 : 8e 00 26 00 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 e4 9a 39 : 8e 00 27 0c 3 00 X Y B L G 1 1 0 1 2 b6 8f 40 : 8e 01 28 0a 3 4 00 X Y B L G 1 1 0 0 0b e0 41 : 8e 02 29 09 0 0 5 00 X Y B L G 1 1 0 43 ec 42 : 8e 03 2a 08 0 0 0 6 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 eb 0f 43 : 8f 00 2b 00 00 01 03 03 05 06 06 05 03 06 01 02 4c 73 44 : 8f 01 2c 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 05 03 2d 00 00 00 c9 b4 45 : 8f 02 2d 00 00 00 00 00 09 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 6a 24 cdrskin: NOTE : Wrote header and 828 CD-TEXT bytes to file 'cdtext.dat' "control: 0 mode: 0" means that it is a stereo audio track with no explicit permission to make a binary copy. With this permission it would be "control: 2 mode: 0"" A data track would bear "control:" values 4, 5, 6, or 7. The CD-TEXT display shows the text packs of the CD. The first byte is the pack type. The title of the CD and the titles of the tracks bear type 80. (Others are for performers (81), song writers (82), composers (83), arrangers (84), messages (85), disc id (86), genre id (87), a hidden remark not visible on players (8d), artwork registration codes "UPC/EAN" aka "Media Catalog Number" and "ISRC" (8e). 8f is for internal housekeeping of CD-TEXT.) Most important for the player's menu will be the track titles. Have a nice day :) Thomas