stupid MP3 and CD Roast question.

[dmartin at ne.arris-i.com (Derek Martin)]

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?

MP3's can't be played on a CD player.  They need to be converted to 16-bit
44MHz stereo PCM .wav files and then copied to the cd as a track.  They'll
take up a lot more room that way... so you won't get nearly so many of
them on the disk.  

The program you'll need is cdrecord, which happens to be packaged with the
latest RH... You may also want a gui front end like xcdroast or some such
thing, there are more than a couple if you search for 'cd' on freshmeat
( http://www.fresmeat.net I believe ).


There's good info in the CD recording howto at your favorite LDP mirror.

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Derek D. Martin      |  Senior UNIX Systems/Network Administrator
Arris Interactive    |  A Nortel Company
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