Hi to everyone (yet again)!

After more than a week of agonizing (ahem... drowning in deadlines just won't motivate you to read through howtos)... I finally had success. I had bought a new cd burner and was deeply interested in making my own collections ( I was unable to download normalize though, anyone know an alternate location for it? I'm in Beijing and some universities get blocked from here.).

Anyway... I've been burning cds with xcdroast just fine (I know there are some who just hate it). I'd like to burn mp3 cds though... how should I go about it? I mean how is it done in Linux?

(bout to hit the sack) Thanks again to everyone for their help.

- bxb

you can put .mp3's into an iso file with
mkisofs (man mkisofs for different options and such) and then burn from that iso, real easy.

real easy but this will take you few time. I think Arson have been designed for burning music/mp3 cd...

I'm not sure about what you ask, burning Mp3 are not harder than burning others type of data

"burning Mp3 are not harder than burning others type of data" well it is if you use XCDroast which sucks. try something decent like eroaster, which is very intuitive. it doesn't convert mp3's on the fly though, as the author thinks it's too risky (gcombust and gnome-toaster does and are nearly as good), so you'll need a bit of tmp space, but it's a bloody good program

Whoa!

Thanks for the reponse guys! I'll try them out when I get home... So it's as simple as that huh? I can't wait.


... again thanks, I'll keep you all posted on how I did.

- bxb

.... I'll also download Arson and eroaster and try them both out...

Do you mean burn MP3's as audio, or as data? Do you want a regular CD player to play these, or do you want a MP3 player to play these?

must want them as audio, as it's obviously very trivial to burn them as just files.

I would think so too, but what would seem trivial to someone who has accomplished something, may seem like a mountain to someone trying to do the same thing.

Sorry I took so long...

What I'm trying to do actually is to burn mp3 discs. At work I have an HP CD Burner with its own software that lets you burn mp3 discs, that get recognized as such when using an mp3 player or a dvd player (that plays mp3 discs of course).

mp3 discs appear to be different from normal data disks with mp3 on it because players using ordinary data discs with mp3 on them won't play them. On computers though they appear to be just the same - cds with mp3s in them.

I am trying to duplicate this feat on my linuxbox at home. According to the mp3 howto making an image of the mp3s and burning that image onto a cd would suffice (I hope I read it correctly).

I am currently trying to make an mp3 disc just as I type this post. Anyway, I hope you understand what I'm trying to do... and thanks for the support.

- bxb

Well, actually, if the device can read .mp3 files, then there actually shouldn't be any difference in a file that is an .mp3 and some other process you do.

So let my try to clarify this, you want to fit more than the standard 20 or so songs on a disc, more like 50 (just a number, but I am trying to distinguish between audio files, and .mp3 files, just for understanding, that's all) because they are actually compressed audio, .mp3 files?

I would think you could do this by "issuing" into a terminal:
cdrecord dev=0,0 (or whatever it is) speed=4 (or however fast) -data -eject filename.mp3 filename.mp3 filename.mp3 (and so on).

Someone can probably give you better syntax than that as I am not on a Linux box at the moment.

Cool

Yup, around 50.

I believe you may be right... I couldn't find any difference. Anyway I think something's wrong with my mp3 player, so I have to find someone with an mp3 player to test.

xcdroast worked fabulously, so I 'm quite ok with that, I couldn't get koncd to burn though... always some kind of error. Though it ripped cds for me perfectly. I recently discovered ogg and I'm trying it out, encoding wavs ripped from cds to ogg files.

I just downloaded and installed eroaster and it looks great, though I did not have enough time to try it out.

When I' grab someone with a cd mp3 player I'll check... til then, cheers

- bxb

Cool, glad I/we could help.

If you are into the KDE thing, or even just have it installed, you can d/l and try a program I like to use in the GUI called Arson. It works very well. Although for quite a while now, to burn I use command line, it works better for me, less coasters. The commands are easy once you do it 2 or 3 times, the filenames are about the only thing to change.

As for ripping to ogg, that's exactly what I do, like the open source idea. Give grip a try, it's a very good program.

Good luck