Re: [PLUG] CD Writer Softwear? And MP3-wav conversion?

[Bill Jonas <bill@billjonas.com>]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 11:05:24AM -0500, thanous@dca.net wrote:
> But I am not sure how to get it to work correctly.

I suggest starting with the CD-Writing-HOWTO[1].  When I first installed
mine, it was the only thing I referred to in order to get mine to work.
If you still can't get it to work, then come back.  I suggest you read
it through once before taking any action, as I didn't and I missed some
things I needed to do, causing me to do an extra kernel compile and
reboot.

As for software, if you don't like using the command-line cdrecord (for
data) and/or cdrdao (for audio), I've heard people say good things about
gtoaster.  The big downside, from what I've heard, is that you have to
have a 700MB partition on your hard disk to write the CD image to.

For audio conversion, sox is quite helpful.  Unfortunately, I don't
believe it understands MP3.  I'm not sure if mpg123 does CDDA format or
not.  (It differs slightly from WAV in that there is a bit of padding at
the end of the files.)  You could convert to WAV with mpg123 and then to
CDR with sox.  I do know that mpg321[2] (a Free Software replacement for
mpg123) will convert directly to CDR format.  ("mpg321 --cdr
filename.cdr filename.mp3").

[1] http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html
[2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpg321/

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