Michael Miles wrote: > 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. Michael > > > > -- 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
