Re: Converting .mp3 to .cdr

[Douglas Bates <bates@stat.wisc.edu>]

Brad Keryan <bkeryan@austin.rr.com> writes:

> On 4 Jan 2001, Douglas Bates wrote:
> 
> > I would like to convert some mp3 files to the .cdr format for writing
> > an audio CD.  The CD-Writing-HOWTO recommends using mpg123 as in
> >  mpg123 --cdr -s track1.mp3 > track1.cdr
> > but the version of mpg123 in mpg123_0.59q-2_i386.deb does not accept
> > the option --cdr, as far as I can tell.
> 
> However, it accepts the option "-w <filename.wav>" which writes the track
> to a WAV file.
> 
> > I would appreciate suggestions for programs, preferably in Debian
> > packages, that can do this.  If the recommendation is to use mpg123
> > followed by sox I would appreciate getting the exact set of options to
> > use with sox on an i386 system.
> 
> cdrecord and cdrdao both support reading audio tracks from WAV files, so
> the -w option is your best bet.

Thank you.  The -w option isn't given in the man page but it does show
up in mpg123 --help.  Interestingly enough, mpg123 --longhelp
indicates that it *does* accept --cdr.

Do you happen to know if it is necessary to swap bytes on the .wav
file when writing it to the CD?  The CD-Writing-HOWTO says to use

  for I in *.mp3
  do
      mpg123 --cdr -s "$I" | cdrecord -audio -pad -swab -nofix -
  done
  cdrecord -fix

and I found that I did have to use -pad.