Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > On 09/06/2010 09:53 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. >> > Check out bbb. I have bbb-0.0.3-1.i386.rpm installed on my server (from > a *long* time ago). You should be able to find it from > www.flyn.org/projects/bbb/download.html. I think the current version is > 0.0.4. > > bbb is a replacement for burn_baby_burn. Both are a set of scripts for > ripping/burning and generally dealing with CD/CD-R/CD-RWs. > > I burned many a CD-R with WAV files using it years ago. > > >> 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! >> >> > > The source (mp3) is not a desirable way to reproduce a audio cd. The mp3 has undergone a huge loss in the making of the mp3 so when you try and make a cd that is to be played on a home stereo or car deck you will notice a tinny sound. You can't make something out of nothing. If you want a high quality cd use sources like cd itself, wav files that have just been produced by ripping a cd, Flac (Free lossless audio codec), iso files, m4a, ape..... these are the most common sources for a proper cd. A cd runs at 1411kbit/second Wav files run at 800- 1411kbit/second Flac files are just compressed wav ape is pretty much like flac just a different compression scheme m4a is a lossy type compression but produces mp4 at 800kbit/second giving a very good quality sound If you must burn from mp3 make sure the bitrate of the mp3 source is at least 192 224, 320 is max bitrate for lame mp3 Anything lower than 192 is not going to be worth the blank cd. -- 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
