[Techtalk] recording music CDs

Carla Schroder carla at bratgrrl.com
Thu Feb 26 17:24:27 EST 2004


On Thursday 26 February 2004 3:51 pm, R. Daneel Olivaw wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> Now that I've tested quickly, here is what I found :
> 
> I found an interesting page at :
> http://www.tldp.org/LDP/linuxcookbook/html/cookbook_28.html#SEC397
> 
> More :
> mp3's can be converted into 2 formats : wav & cdr.
> 
> if you want to user cdrecord, you may convert mp3 files to wav using :
> mpg321 --wav outputfile.wav music.mp3
> or mp3 to cdr using :
> mpg321 --cdr outputfile.cdr music.mp3
> 
> what difference ?
> I found out gcombust correctly writes audio CDs from wav files I
> provide, and read that 'cdrecord' knows how to write cdr files.

Thanks R, that gave me the clue I needed. cdrecord -audio automatically 
converts .wav, .au, and other sound formats into the cd-da (redbook) format 
for standard audio CDs. yaaaay. And sox converts sound file formats into 
anything you need, plus it does special effects!

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