Re: Converting mp3 to audio CDs

[andy <geek_show@dsl.pipex.com>]

Chris Lale wrote:
> andy wrote:
>   
> > Hello
> >
> > I have a friend who has requested that I dump a selection of mp3s onto a
> > CD for him, but he lacks a computer-based media player. Is there an
> > application that does the mp3 to audio-CD conversion so that the end
> > product can be used on a stand alone CD player? Do I need to have
> > anything in addition to the mp3 file in order to do this?
> >     
>
> There are probably many ways to do this. I would suggest "sox" to convert the
> mp3 files to wav, and "k3b" to create the audio tracks from the wav files.
>
> >From the man page for sox:
> DESCRIPTION
>        SoX is a command line program that can convert most popular audio files
>        to most other popular audio file formats.
>
>   
Hi Chris

OK - so a *.wav file format is that which will play on an audio CD 
player? Thanks for that. I'll read up on sox never having used it 
before. Burning to a CD is straight forward enough.

Cheers

Andy

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