I have been trying to burn an audio cd for the past week or so. I have 12 mp3 files that i want to burn. I have tried the following methods (I have tried them all in two different burners, with the same results):

k3b: Crashes linux with out of memory (i have a gig of ram & 2 gig of swap lol). First time linux has crashed on me . But k3b seems very unstable on my system so I abandoned this method

xcdroast: Using the wav files created by k3b before it crashed (they play fine, and 'file file.wav' returns 'RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, stereo 44100 Hz' which seems fine). Results in an audio cd that plays, but is nothing like the original music, it's just mostly jarring noise.

cdrecord: Using the same wav files i did this:
this results in the same as above.

At this point i decided there must be *something* wrong with the wav files - despite the fact that they play fine, and used lame --decode to create a test wav from on of the original mp3 - and called it track1.wav

cdrdao: Using the new wav file i created this toc:
cd.toc:
This resulted in a *slightly* better cd. The music is discernible, but every second or so there is jarring noise in the track.

I have a Lite-On SOHW-1673S and a HL-DT-ST GCE-8240B which have never failed me in the past. Data CDs burn fine.

I am running Fedora Core 3, Athlon XP 3200+, 1Gb RAM, ATI Rad 9600XT 256Mb (ATI drivers still not working...).

This is the first time i have seriously considered using Windoze since i swapped completely to linux. I would have done by now if I hadn't scrubbed my windoze partition a month ago .

Any help would be greatly appreciated

you could try gnomebaker

http://gnomebaker.sourceforge.net/

Thanks for the suggestion, I just installed the latest version of gnome-baker, and tried to create an audio cd. I first used the original mp3's, which gnomebaker said it converted and burned. This resulted in a playable cd, but all the tracks were completely silent. Then I tried using the wav files created earlier to make the cd. This resulted in another horribly distorted cd.

I'm completely stumped.

Any more ideas would be greatly appreciated.

I've had to burn the mp3's as data, take them round to a friends and make an audio CD on his WIndoze XP. I felt a bit stupid as I have been trying to convert him to linux for a while now, and this doesn't exactly make linux look brilliant

However, I still want to work out what might be wrong for the future, so any more suggestions will be welcomed.