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Re: Making an audio CD from mp3 and wav files



Elimar Riesebieter, 2002-Sep-29 11:46 +0200:
> On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 the mental interface of 
> Jeff told:
> 
> > Elimar Riesebieter, 2002-Sep-28 15:58 +0200:
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > > Whats about apt-cacge show mp3burn?
> > > 
> > >  mp3burn is a Perl script that allows you to burn audio CDs composed
> > >  of MP3 or Ogg Vorbis tracks without an intermediate file conversion
> > >  to .cdr or .wav.
> > >  Actually, the .mp3/.ogg files *are* converted using a decoder, but are
> > >  written to FIFOs so they don't consume a lot of filesystem space during
> > >  the burn.
> > > 
> > > Works fine for me and can be handled in scripts as well;-)
> > 
> > I'll have to check this out.  One of my issues is the ability to
> > determine how many tracks I can fit on the CD.  The only way I've been
> > able to do this is to convert to wav first and add up the MB's.  The
> > music varies in size, obviously, and I've been able get a few as 12
> > songs and as many as 24 songs on a single CD.
> [...]
> # man mp3burn
> # [...]
> # -c MMM:SS
> # Time check:  compute the total length of files to be burned and 
> # warn if greater than MMM:SS minutes and seconds.

Ah, I see.  I've been hung up on making the determination by file size
and not playtime.  

It's one revelation after another!

thanks,
jc


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