On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 07:02:06PM +0100, JRH wrote: > > Why oh why does K3B like to crash midway through burning an audio CD? > > It will burn data CD's all day long, with no problems. > > But, it will either crash at 50%, or just as it is beginnng to encode the > final track. > > It has done this down the line from 9.2, through cooker and now CE. > > I'm fully updated, and everything is set as it should be. I watched the buffer > status like a hawk during the latest burn, and not once did it drop below > 96%, so I'm doubting it's an under run. > > Crashing on the last track I can live with, as I always add an extra track to > what I want. But the 50% gets me steamed...... It wastes a CD! > > Any ideas?
Far as I can tell, K3B has a "k" in it. Anything with a "k" in the name calls 50,000 other processes and leaves them running when its finished, copies your .wav's to a tmp folder, and doesn't delete them if it crashes in the middle of a burn. Honestly, I don't see what people love about K3B. I'm back to the old standby cdrecord--that command line, she always takes me back, as if she intuitively knows that I must wander to some younger, prettier app from time to time, and my love for her will be all the stronger for it. But I digress. I recently had a problem with burning audio cd's, too, and I fixed it by powering down the computer and unplugging it for a few minutes. It was a RAM/Cache/buffer thingy because a simple restart wouldn't fix it. Seriously, my computer is a 500mhz amd and it struggles with kde. I just tried Knoppix on a faster computer at work and I can see how nice and polished kde is, so I'm not really knockin' kde ;) When I'm in a bind for a gui burner I'll even use Arson, which I like a lot better than k3b. Do you get anything in an error log for k3b? Can you try cdrecord with the --dummy option to see if you can get a sense for the problem? Todd
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