Disclaimer

Information on the cue sheet pages are taken from the helpfile of cdrwin.

Problems

Index times

Track times are specified in minutes, seconds, and frames (e.g. 02:48:25). There are 75 frames per second. If you are using a WAVE file editor to get your audio track times, it probably doesn't display the times in this format, so you will have to convert them. Most editors display time in either 30 frames per second or in hundredths/thousandths of a second.

Tracks less than 4 seconds long

The CDROM specification does not allow any tracks or indexes (other than index zero) to be less than four seconds long. This software will warn you about any tracks that violate this rule. Most recorders will refuse to write a CD with this violation.

Pregaps greater than 3 seconds long

Some recorders will refuse to record a disc with any pregaps that exceed three seconds in length. On the first track, you automatically get a pregap of two seconds, which is required by the CDROM spec. Unless you are doing something very unusual, you should never need to extend the pregap of the first track (i.e. don't use the PREGAP command on the first track).

File data length is not a multiple of the cdrom sector size

If you are using an audio (WAV) file where the length of the data is not an exact multiple of the CDROM sector size (2352), then the last sector will be padded with zeros when it is written to the recorder. This can cause a tiny "tick" between tracks. If you are making a disc from a live recording that has been broken up into several files, then you must make sure that each file is an exact multiple of the CDROM sector size. Otherwise, there will not be a perfectly seamless transition between tracks.