Between asking and getting your answers, I had written all the mp3 files
to a cd to get them off my disk where they were taking up all the free
space. I just took that cd and put it in to the player (the same Memorex
you have BTW) and it plays them fine.

Thanks for the help.

Brad



"Kevin P. Neal" wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 10:02:34AM -0500, Laine Stump wrote:
> > "Stephen B. Salai" <bsalai@rochester.rr.com> writes:
> >
> > > I got a player for cd's and mp3's for Christmas, and am trying to use
> > > cdrecord to put a bunch of mp3's on a cd.
> >
> > Before cdrecord, you need to use mkisofs (or something similar) to
> > create an ISO filesystem image containing the mp3 files.
> 
> (snip)
> 
> > 6) Burn with cdrecord, eg:
> >
> >
> >      cdrecord -v dev=/dev/cd0d image.iso
> >
> 
> As a heads up, you didn't mention what platform you are trying to burn the
> CD on. As you appear from your original message to have posted from a SPARC
> then I'll guess you may be using that to burn a CD.
> 
> Anyway, on non-i386 platforms the command is instead:
> 
>   cdrecord -v dev=/dev/cd0c image.iso
> 
> On the i386 platform the "d" partition is the "whole disk" with the "c"
> partition the "whole NetBSD part". On everywhere else "c" is the whole
> disk (no funny business).
> 
> In the interest of being explicit, here's the command I use to burn CD's:
> 
> cdrecord dev=/dev/cd0d speed=4 -v -data image.iso
> 
> I'm on a i386 box with a burner that does 6x but my SCSI card isn't that
> fast. I threw the "-data" option in because I like verboseness I guess.
> --
> Kevin P. Neal                                http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/
> 
> "It sounded pretty good, but it's hard to tell how it will work out
> in practice." -- Dennis Ritchie, ~1977, "Summary of a DEC 32-bit machine"