CD Burning

If you have a CD-R (CD Recordable) or CD-RW (CD Rewritable) drive, you can take part in what's becoming the favorite multimedia pastime in today's computer age: creating your own music CDs that are mixed however you like.

CD burning in FreeBSD is still a command-line affair, however. The recordable optical drive you have installed is most likely an IDE/ATA drive; if so, the tool you will be using is burncd. (If, however, you have a SCSI drive, you will need to use cdrecord; because SCSI burners are far less common these days than IDE burners, we will focus on burncd in this hour's lesson.)

Unlike the process of creating data CDs, which we covered in Hour 8, “Storage Systems and Backup Utilities,” the creation of standard audio disc ...

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