when you burn a cd using k3b or arson( or one of the many others), what do they convert the files to in order to make an audio cd? Are there converters that I can download to do this on my own? I know you can convert mp3 in to .wav but do they do that or is there some form that doesnt take up so much space?
thanks for all the help I hope that made sense......

There is a program called 'sox' that will convert almost any wav file into a file suitable for burning on an audio cd. It might even be on your installation of Linux without having to compile it.

Actually, I tried this a couple of weeks ago. First I used lame to decode the mp3 into a wav file, then I used sox to convert the wav file into an CD audio image. The interesting thing was that it wasn't even stereo or at the right bit rate originally, but sox converted it to the same format as a CD track. But you are right, it does require a lot of room on the disk.



Hope this helps.

You can burn the mp3's onto a cd without converting them to wav and then use it in a special cd player that is mp3 capable. I have one of these and the firmware is upgradable so support can be added for ogg/vorbis, etc...

Can sox convert mp3 to the cd media without having to convert it to a .wav file first? If so are the files bigger or smaller than wav files? I still would like to know what the other applications convert to, and why they dont take up any space when they convert the mp3 to make the audio cd...

It only makes sense to convert to wav, since that is the format used on a standard audio cd.

Maybe some applications can convert to wav on the fly, while the wav is being written to the cd. That's the way to avoid using harddisk space.