mp3 converter
 

Is there a mp3 to wav converter for linux? I wish to convert mp3's to a cd that can be played in a cd player.

Tried using K3b but it says mp3"s are unsupported.

Lame will decode mp3 to wav:

use lame --decode <infile> <outfile>

But I'm surprised at k3b: I use k3b 0.12.17 on debian, and can drag mp3s to the audio CD creation list without problem.

Hope this helps.

Using the same version of K3b and it does not support mp3....hmmm

In order to have k3b burn mp3 files to a regular audio cd, one needs to have a "plugin" in the program that does the conversion. For copyright/law/etc. reasons not every distribution comes with this plugin preinstalled. For Fedora Core distributions (at least) there exists an rpm, or actually several for several K3b versions; one needs to install this rpm (suitable version of it) and restart K3b to make it able to burn mp3 files. For Debian such a plugin should exist too, but not every distribution has it as a precompiled binary package; in that case one needs to obtain the source code of K3b and recompile it from source, compiling the "plugin" along with it, I think.

Try and search google for "k3b mp3 plugin" (or "addon" or something) plus your distribution.

install the package libk3b2-mp3 from the universe repository to get mp3 support in k3b

libkb2-mp3 does the trick