> This is bizarre.  I've copied some of my audio CD's (for back-up purposes,
> of
> course ;-) using the copy CD facility in K3B on 9.1.  The copies completed
> without error, but when I go to play them in a CD player, the disc is
> identified, the number and lengths of tracks reported OK, the tracks start
> playing OK, but there is no sound!!!  Albums full of 3.5 minute slices of
> perfect silence, neatly moving through the track listings, playing to
> their
> correct length, before stopping at the end!!!  But not even a blip on the
> level meters!  Now, I know that the arty set are into this sort of thing,
> but
> I'm not.  What happened????

Just some wild stabs in the dark with a shopping bag on my head, but have
you tried:

1) Playing the ripped WAV files?
2) Checking if the WAVs are being normalized to silence?
3) Is it by any chance a Simon/Garfunkel tribute? :D

>
> Yes, I've checked the CD player works (on the originals), there's no copy
> protection on the CD's (too old for that), my CD-R drive and DVD drive
> also
> give me silence (CDDB works though).  Now, I KNOW that CD copies are done
> by
> ripping data / writing data through the IDE interface, but it's almost
> like
> tape-deck dubbing without the audio cable between the decks :-)  Funnily
> enough, I don't have an audio cable installed on one of the drives I used
> in
> the copy...
>



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