Re: SOLVED Re: genisoimage and burning the iso created.
On 30/04/2012, Indulekha <indulekha@theunworthy.com> wrote:
> Sharon Kimble <skimble04@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>> I installed datapacker from the repo but do not understand how to use
>> it. It does not appear to be able to be directed to a specific
>> directory where the mp3 files are without checking other directories.
>> I've read http://jgoerzen.github.com/datapacker/datapacker.html but
>> still fail to understand how to use it.
>>
>
> I don't have time to look into it right now, but a quick glance at
> "man datapacker" does show there are quite a few options, and so
> it may not not particularly simple to use for the first time.
> Nowadays I usually just put things on USB sticks or external hard
> drives, so there's rarely a reason for me to write to optical media.
> IDK why none of the GUI disk writing programs can do it automatically,
> though -- I do know windos media player can do this automatically
> because I did it once for a friend. It's about the only thing I was
> ever really impressed by in windos, LOL. I dragged and dropped 77 GB
> of music into wmp's burning screen (whatever they call it) and it
> immediately proposed a solution. I accepted, and it worked great.
> Wish we had something like that!
> (minus the DRM-encrusted garbage that makes up much of wmp, of course)
>
>> Yes, I check the dvds when i've burnt them that they are readable by
>> me and the computer itself.
>>
>
> That's rather peculiar. I have the distinct impression that the best
> one can do with "split" is to end up with mere *fragments* of the
> original iso, which must then be reassembled to be useful.
> Has this changed? Or perhaps I misunderstood what your goal was?
> I though you were looking to play music files directly from the
> resulting dvds...
>
Yes, I'm listening to a dvd that I've already burnt using genisoimage
and split containing 1199 mp3s with no difficulty.
Split works by carving chunks out of the original file and renaming
them as xaa, xab, xac and so on till it reaches the end of the source
file. These can then be renamed as iso, or txt, or whatever the
original source was, and proceed as you want. I've found that its a
very useful little program.
Thanks
Sharon.
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