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+Why do I hear only noise from my first audio CD?
+
+You may have a byte swapping problem, try wodim -swab
+but note that is is most unlikely that you need to use the -swab
+option from wodim unless your input files are broken.
+It makes more sense to find out why the inout files are not OK.
+
+wodim assumes Motorola/Network byte order (big-endian) on input
+regardless of the byte order of the CD-Recorder. If wodim
+encounters a .wav file, byte order is corrected to match the byte order
+of the .wav file.
+
+wodim by default uses Track at once. This always gives 2 seconds
+pause between two audio tracks and loweres the audio quality.
+
+For best audio CD quality, use wodim -dao (to write in Session At Once)
+ot wodim -raw (to write in RAW mode). Note that there are a lot of drives
+notably from Lite-ON that have defective firmware and will write defective
+CDs if you use either TAO or SAO mode. In RAW mode, wodim has the
+full control over the complete CD and the chance that the CD is OK
+is much higher.
+
+The 2 seconds pause between two audio tracks is the CD ***standard***
+
+The standard says:
+	Each track starts with 2 seconds of silence
+	followed by at least 4 seconds of audio data.
+
+For that reason the 2 second pause is generated by the CD-R drive in 
+Track at once (TAO) mode.
+
+CD's that have no pause between two tracks are illegal (compared to RED BOOK).
+These illegal disks may be made with Disk At Once (DAO) only.
+In DAO mode the writing software needs to send the 2 seconds pause as 
+binary zeroes and therefore is able to create illegal disks by 
+sending audio data instead. 
+
+Some drives don't accept to write illegal disks even in SAO mode.
+In this case, use the RAW mode. In RAW mode, the drive does not even
+"know" what is going on and thus cannot prevent you from writing such
+a disk.
+
+This audio data (the last two seconds of a track in this case)
+however are part of the next track from viewing the TOC of the disk.
+Digital Audio Extraction programs that work correctly (as intended by the
+CD standard) split the content of a CD into files by including the
+pre-gap (usually holding 2 seconds of pause) at the end of the previous
+track.
+
+Eduard Bloch, based on documentation from Joerg Schilling