Why does Gnometoaster generate my precache tracks in /tmp or a similar
directory regardless of what I give it in the preferences setup ?
The answer is rather simple. Gnometoaster uses a libc call to generate the names of itīs temporary files. However,the corresponding call is not very interested in what directory you tell it to create your files in if youīve set an environment entry called TMPDIR. This entry overwrites whatever Gnometoaster gives the libc function as a default. Try to unset this environment entry or set it to the directory you want your tracks to be created in.
Why donīt I see any contents of my cd drives although I entered their
device names corretly ?
Unfortunately,some systems hav their /dev/cdromxx or /dev/scdxx devices configured in a way that prevents normal users from reading them. This can be solved by either adding the user to a special group or editing the access mask of those device special files directly.
Writing Audiotracks,at first everything seems to be fine but playing the
cd in a cd player gives me nothing but statics although tracks even seem to
have the proper length.
Most probaly cdrecord couldnīt detect the Endianness of your cd writer correctly. Different types of cd writers use different types of byte ordering and cdrecord can only guess the right one depending on the type of drive it detects unless you tell cdrecord directly which endianness to use. To do so,add the parameter "-swab" to cdrecords "Write track" command line in Gnometoasterīs preferences setup (Section "Recorder"). Please donīt change anything else unless you know what youīre doing.