Jeremy Cooper - 2002-05-01

Hi, I just got through pinning down why my HP 9600i wasn't accepting cue sheets from CDRDAO and want to help others who might be having the same problem with this drive:

The HP 9600i does not like cue sheets which specify a Track 1 pre-gap size of anything over 00:02:00 (two seconds).  Keep in mind that CDRDAO already adds a two second pre-gap to Track 1 automatically, so any PREGAP statements it encounters for Track 1 are simply tacked on to it.

My cue sheet was thus:

---- begin snippet ----

CD_DA

TRACK AUDIO
PREGAP 00:02:00
FILE "side1.wav" 0

--- end snippet ---

This actually created a pregap of four seconds, and hence the drive rejected it.
Once I deleted the PREGAP statement, everything else went fine.