On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 09:38, anthony baldwin wrote:
> I have only been using Linux since this past spring.
[snip]
> The very few issues I still have are not Red Hat's fault:
> 1-my scanner does not work in Linux. The manufacturer is to blame here.
> 2-having difficulty burning music cd's. (mp3's)
> 3-Have not yet figured out how to run a database app. on one machine (not server/client). (Okay, on this one, why don't they make Tora configure upon install to do this?)
> 4-some documentation is not written in plain English that I can follow--it assumes too much to be useful to some newbies without a strong tech background (I am an English teacher, not a computer science wiz).
Amen, brutha, to your post. I am replying to you off-list to offer a
little help on your problem number 2. First, the CDROM burning HowTo
has good information on burning music CDs. You probably already know
about the Linux Documentation Project at:
http://www.tldp.org/
Anyway, to burn MP3s back to music CDs, you have convert them back into
CD audio format, then burn the CD, essentially reversing the process of
ripping them to MP3.
The conversion from MP3 to CD audio is done with a program called mpg123
(or the open source program mpg321 which does the same thing). These
programs don't come with Red Hat 8.0, but you can download mpg321 from
http://psyche.freshrpms.net in RPM format.
All GUI CD burning software uses the command line cdrecord program. I
have preferred to just burn CDs from shell scripts since I've had
varying degrees of success with the GUI tools. Here is the script I use
to burn music CDs. This script assumes that you already have CD burning
set up on your machine (the HowTo covers this extensively).
You will need to change the input directory in the For statement
(/home/keithw/datacore/burn/data/). Dump some mp3s in a directory and
enter that directory in the For statement. You _might_ need to change
the dev=0,0,0 in the cdrecord statements if your CD burning device is
not the first SCSI device.
Best Regards,
Keith
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#!/bin/bash
#
# This is a CD-R script for burning mp3 files directly to CD.
# The mpg123 program converts mp3s to cdr format, and cdrecord burns
# the tracks on the CD.
#
for I in /home/keithw/datacore/burn/data/*.mp3
do
# mpg123 --cdr - "$I" | cdrecord dev=0,0,0 -audio -pad -v -speed=2 -nofix -
mpg321 --cdr - "$I" | cdrecord dev=0,0,0 -audio -pad -v -speed=2 -nofix -
done
cdrecord dev=0,0,0 -fix
