Converting from mp3 to cda

workman161 · 07-17-2005, 10:39 AM

When I run k3b to try and make a new audio CD, it says it can't convert my mp3's because of an unknown file format. I have lame installed if thats worth anything. I've searched everywhere, and can't seem to find anything that will convert from mp3 to a .cda to put in a CD player that doesn't support mp3s.

Komakino · 07-17-2005, 12:19 PM

You don't convert to .cda (that's just a microsoft convention to show it's CD Audio) you need to convert to wav file. Lame can do that:

Code:

lame --decode infile.mp3 outfile.wav

then you can drag raw wav to the CD in k3b. However, k3b should be able to convert for you...it could be that your mp3 is in a strange format? I have occasionally had to convert an mp3 to a wav and then back again to get a more 'standard' format for k3b.

workman161 · 07-17-2005, 12:56 PM

Yeah, wav format works, but no matter how many times I convert from wav to mp3 using various settings, k3b still won't do it. It can write using wav files though, so I guess I could live with that, but going from mp3 to CD would be so much better.

Komakino · 07-17-2005, 01:03 PM

I think k3b requires libmad for mp3 decoding. Try installing that. If it still doesn't work after installing libmad, try compiling k3b for yourself from source.

workman161 · 07-17-2005, 04:14 PM

Yep. libmad was what I needed. Works now