i'm using suse 10.0. k3b is on there, is there some sort of plugin that can be installed to make it burn audio cds?

k3b is already capable of burning audio CD's. Have you tried to burn one, and if so, what was the result?

yes, it wont let me put any mp3s to be burned into the list.

when i try to put MP3 files , k3b says that it's not a supoorted file format .

Everybody has that problem.

That's because Mp3 is patented technology and so it doesn't come as standard with your linux distribution. It's a legal grey area. The same goes with watching DVDs on Linux too, if you didn't know. (For that you need the libdvdcss package: possibly not legal in America / Germany, but ok everywhere else I think).

However, getting the mp3 packages (totally legally) off the net is quite easy. The mp3 plugin for k3b is the k3b-mad package. Use YaST to download it, if you have the internet on your home computer.
If you want to be able to create mp3s you need the Lame encoder. Use Yast for that too.

(You all have the internet on your home computers and so can YaST, yes?)

i donwloaded that package already and it's working fine. but i'm wondering if we can do the same thing with WMA files. i have a huge amount of WMA files and i would like to burn them on Audio discs from time to time. i don't know if there is any package to burn audio dics from WMA files .... thanks

What version of k3b are you using? Apparently the latest release of k3b (0.12) is supposed to be able to handle wma files:


from:
http://www.linuxcompatible.org/K3b_0...ed_p49239.html



If that still doesn't work, and if you want to, I supppose you could convert them to mp3/wav. If you use audiokonverter, you can just right click select all the files you want to convert (batch mode) and off the right click menu select what format you want to change them to. Neat little program.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/audiok...ease_id=213683