Re: [Sheflug] mp3 to audio conversion

[Peter Collier <nospam [at] pecb.worldonline.co.uk>]

Chris J/#6 wrote:

>>Is there a
>>program that will convert mp3 to audio to write to a cd, or, does anyone
>>know how to get musicmatch to recognise my cd writer.
>>                                            Peter
>>
>
>>From the CD-Writing-HOWTO, section 3.2.1: Writing Audio CDs:
>
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  One notable format not directly readable by cdrecord is MPEG Layer 3.
>  To convert files in this format to the CDR-format, you can use the
>  command "mpg123 --cdr - track1.mp3 > track1.cdr".  The option --cdr
>  ensures the track is encoded in the required format (see above). Older
>  versions of mpg123 require -s instead of the plain - to write to
>  stdout.  The other direction (converting from WAV to MPEG) can be done
>  with LAME for WAV-files (extract the track with cdda2wav from the
>  audio CD and encode it into MP3 with the help of LAME).
>
>  To create a CD-R from a whole bunch of MP3-files, you can use the
>  following command sequence:
>
>  for I in *.mp3
>  do
>      mpg123 --cdr - "$I" | cdrecord -audio -pad -swab -nofix -
>  done
>  cdrecord -fix
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>But as Baz says, original WAVs are preferred as mp3 is a lossy algorithm. 
>But unless your an audiophile or your mp3s are exceptionally bad, you 
>shouldn't notice.
>
>Chris...
>
Thanks Baz & Chris for the info. I encode at 160 which I find 
acceptable. I still want to keep some mp3's on the computer, hard disk 
space permitting.
Installed grip and bladeenc, works fine with cd's. How do I record from 
line in? I've read how to once and I have done it with an older system, 
but now forgotten how. Would like to get rid of Musicmatch, it has 
frozen the computer twice! Ah, it's a windoze program, running on wine. 
(Is that literally or metaphorically, perhaps it's both).

   Peter C....

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