Creating an Audio CD with mp3cd
August 8th, 2008 by Phil Hughes
I guess the title tells you too much. The reality is that I was given some MP3 files and wanted to put them on a normal audio CD so the non-geeks here could listen to them. Thus, consider this a geek to non-geek conversion article.
First I looked at the obvious candidates in the Multimedia menu and found nothing useful. So, I decided to fire up Adept and see if it had any interesting sounding programs with mp3 in their name or description. The winner was mp3cd that was described as a program to burn audio CDs from MP3, Ogg, ... files. Perfect. I added the sucker and typed in its name.
It gave me a list of options. -n, simulate but don't write, sounded like a good first step. Well, in spite of the fact that it wasn't going to write anything, it complained it could not open the CD device /dev/cdrecorder. So, I fed it the right device with -d /dev/scd0 which brings the whole command line up to
mp3cd -d /dev/scd0 *mp3
It actually seemed to start working, cleaning up (its words) and creating WAV files. But, it then blew up with the folloing messages:
Checking WAV format for track 01 ...
sox did not report channel count:
sox: SoX v14.0.0
sox soxio: Failed reading `01.wav': unknown file type `auto'
Clearly, it was time to think about what that message might really mean. I decided it meant some sox library was missing. Firing up Adept again and looking for sox, I found a bunch of files whose names started libsox. One option was an "all" file. Sold. I clicked and when it was done, gave mp3cd another try.
It worked perfectly. It created a CD and sticking it in the CD player worked fine. And, for me, the good news is that I can do this again without ever having to use a GUI.
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Phil Hughes
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Sweet!
On February 14th, 2009 Aldrenean (not verified) says:
Exactly what I was looking for. Made an Amarok playlist with mixed mp3 and FLAC, created an m3u, used mp3cd, and voila! Valentines Day Mix CD, here we go. :D
Thanks!
I found that
On December 5th, 2008 Trotsky (not verified) says:
I found that www.linuxfromscratch.org has a great page on k3b dependencies/addons..
first result when you search k3b there. The lib relevant to on-the-fly mp3 decoding is "libmad".
(My search also had a result pertaining to Ubuntu with something about "apt-get install libk3b2-mp3".
Enjoy.
k3b has plugins, folks,
On December 5th, 2008 Anonymous (not verified) says:
k3b has plugins, folks, including mp3 decoder, .flac decoder, etc. No .shn that I could find yet. Takes some poking around to get all the right libs, admittedly.
Great help
On September 26th, 2008 Kathryn A (not verified) says:
Thanks for this little article, it was exactly what I needed to get mp3cd to work!
My method
On August 11th, 2008 rotten777 (not verified) says:
I'm a little crazy about the audio cd's I make. I thought I'd share my method.
First is the decoding to WAV from MP3. The key in this command is the mpg123 program.
ls | grep .mp3 | while read line; do mpg123 -w $line.wav $line; done
I usually follow this up with
mkdir Wave
mv *.wav Wave/
Next I'll open Audacity and literally go through each file and compress, normalize, enhance, etc. until I'm happy.
Then I write with K3B using DAO, no pre-emphasis, no post-gap, CD-TEXT enabled for all tracks.
A little crazy... yes.. a little...
Why all the extra
On August 19th, 2008 Anonymous (not verified) says:
Why all the extra complexity? Is there some corner case I'm not seeing?
mkdir Wave
for file in *.mp3; do mpg123 -w $file Wave/$file.wav; done
What system do you use?
On August 9th, 2008 Dom Delimar says:
Thanks for the tip Phil!
What system do you use?
I'm asking because I'd like to know why the dependency of mp3cd wasn't installed automatically alongside mp3cd?
Excuse my ignorance please, but I have only used Debian so far and installing mp3cd on my box installed the sox libraries as well so I'm a bit puzzled how it didn't work on your end...
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Kubuntu 8.04
On August 9th, 2008 Phil Hughes says:
Yeah, they should have been installed but Kubuntu/Debian dependencies sometimes have some holes in them.
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Well, you can always use K3B
On August 9th, 2008 Maf (not verified) says:
Well, you can always use K3B :)
I don't think so
On August 9th, 2008 Phil Hughes says:
K3B will happily create an audio CD if you have the WAV files but, as far as I know, it will not convert MP3 files to WAV files.
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Brasero
On August 9th, 2008 Adam R (not verified) says:
I'm pretty sure Brasero can do this too.
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