[Sheflug] mp3 to audio conversion

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] barriebremner.com>]

>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Collier <pc [at] pecb.worldonline.co.uk> writes:

    Peter>     I have a large collection of old LP's.  Due to them not
    Peter> being easy to handle, delicate etc., plus my stylus is an
    Peter> expensive one to replace, I have slowly been recording the
    Peter> tracks onto my computer. I have installed the Linux version
    Peter> of music match which successfully records off my line in,
    Peter> from my stereo. However I would like to make cd's up with
    Peter> selected tracks (not every track on every LP is always
    Peter> desirable and I will eventually run out of hard disk space
    Peter> ) but musicmatch will not recognise my Freecom
    Peter> DVD/CD-RW. X-Roast does and works. Is there a program that
    Peter> will convert mp3 to audio to write to a cd, or, does anyone
    Peter> know how to get musicmatch to recognise my cd writer.
    Peter> Peter

When writing audio to disk, you need to have the files in wav format -
most normal rippers or recording programs tend to use this format, and
then compress to mp3.

It's preferable to use the original wav files, rather than go
wav->mp3->wav again.

There might be some programs around that will transparently decode
mp3s, and write to CD for you, but I can't think of any. Try
Freshmeat.

I tend to just use the "write to disk" output plugin in XMMS to play
an mp3, and end up with a wav file on disk.

Burn those to CD with cdrecord, or X-Roast (which calls cdrecord).

No exactly pretty, but it works.

Cheers.

Baz.

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