How do I burn data cds for mp3-diskman?
 

I have an mp3 diskman an appear to be unable to produce a data cd with mp3 files that the diskman can read. In the past I used windows/nero and it would read all cds, but using k3b I haven't been able to produce a single one it reven recognises.

Can anybody tell me which settings I should check / load in order to be able to create cds it can read? Thanks in advance.

My car CD player plays MP3 CDs, I don't use K3B but the data CDs I burn work fine. I don't know huge amount about CD burning but check around in the settings and make sure it's doing stuff like closing the session and you arne't overburning the CD. Are you using CDRWs instead of CDRs? It may not recognise them, not everything does.

I close the sessions, no overburning, cd-r ....

Which app do you use?

Graveman, but it shouldn't matter which program you use. The files don't have any DRM on them that perhaps Nero removed automatically? If you owned Nero (not a pirate copy) then try NeroLinux. They have ported Nero to linux (nice chaps), maybe give that a try and see if it makes a difference. You do need a valid copy of Nero for Windows to use it though.

What's DRM. Anyway the comment about cd-rw made me think. I hadn't tried that one before. Using a cd-rw I can try many different configurations and not waste a lot of cds...

So I tried and tried... and got one that worked! I need to select both Joliet and Rockridge (working from memory here) and leave all other settings alone.

I'd still like to learn why this is so. Any explanation / useful links appreciated.

Glad you got it sorted, no idea about why it worked though :p

Found a couple of nice links referring to the Joliet and Rock Ridge file systems, the best of which is here. It appears Joliet is another of those M$ inventions. Rock Ridge works better with file permissions and is an extention to ISO-9660 which permits filenames longer than 8+3. It would appear that in my case Rock Ridge did the trick, but I'll have to investigate some more to make sure. STill intrigued to know if there is a way to find out which file system(s) have been used to create a cd-rom.