stupid MP3 and CD Roast question.

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Jerry Feldman wrote:

> My daughter has a bunch of MP3s she wants me to put on a CD so she can
> play them on a CD player. I have not paid a lot of attention to that
> stuff. I use CD to install, copy and backup. I have not looked at the
> howto files yet. Anyone want to point me to the right howtos? 

The CD-Writing-HOWTO is available on a Redhat system in /usr/doc/HOWTO.
The following command loop will create the audio cd out of mp3 files; you
must make sure that the total data size doesn't exceed 650mb (74 minutes
of audio data):

    for filename in *.mp3
    do
        mpg123 -s $filename | cdrecord -audio -pad -swab -nofix speed=1 -
    done
    cdrecord -fix

Note that the recording speed is set to 1. In order to record at a faster
speed, you'd have to uncompress each mp3 file to disk first, and then burn
them as a second step. However, it would take at least as long as the
single-speed recording just to uncompress the mp3 files, so you wouldn't
really be saving any time.

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