On 09/06/2010 06:53 PM, Robert wrote: > I attacked the seemingly simply task of producing an audio CD from a > collection of MP3 files and have concluded that it's not as easy as > it sounds. UNLESS GUI front ends are used! I would much rather stick > with CLI because scripting works better that way. > > I decided that the first step must create a .wav file for each .mp3. > I found many scripts to do that; kept coming back to the very simple > > mpg123 -w outfile.wav infile.mp3 > > That has worked fine for all the mp3 files I've given it, producing > .wav files that play properly with the command > > play outfile.wav > > Further, the .wav file will be played properly by VLC Player AND if > chosen by k3b as a file to be written to an audio CD, that CD will > play fine in the original factory CD player in my '98 Chevy pickup. > BUT I have spent most of today finding and trying, then rejecting > command-line solutions for writing to CD. > >From http://sharkysoft.com/tutorials/linuxtips/cdcommands/ > I find this one > > cdrecord -v -pad speed=1 dev=5,0,0 -dao -audio -swab *.wav > > Which yields cdrecord: Inappropriate audio coding in '$first_file.wav' > > Then, from > http://www.pallier.org/ressources/linux_howtos/linux_howto.html#tth_sEc24 > we have > > cdrecord dev=5,0,0 -pad speed=0 -audio *.wav > > Which doesn't work, either. > > Again, I have no problem with k3b EXCEPT that I must manually select > which songs to burn to the CD rather than let a script do it ... and > surprise me. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks! Why do you need -swab? I just used cdrecord in exactly the same way you describe and I did not have any problem. The CD plays just fine. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
