My _intended_ emal re: soundconverter anomolies

[David Ryder]

Hi,
>From the bug reports on k3b there seems to be an issue when there are a
mixture of ide and scsi or sata drives. Apparently, from what I
understand, K3b is a front end using cdrado and as it was some time ago
that I spent researching this I can not remember the exact details in
the bug reports. I did spend a lot of time and cds trying the various
suggestions in the bug reports but eventually, after some weeks, gave
up. 

I tried again last weekend and no updates had resolved the issues for
me. Not being a technophile, I am reluctant to blindly change config
files.
  
> I've never encountered anything that K3B couldn't burn that
> wasn't my fault.  If K3B and the Gnome equivalents are not working,
> there is very likely something wrong with your CD drive or media.

It is not media nor my dvd drives. It is either a setting I do not
know about or a bug that affects my combination of drives or the
ability to lock the drive. If there are settings for k3b 

I did mean that I want to use a gui ... 

But be that as it may, with respect, the issue of the file sizes was
avoided in your reply :-) <grin>

David

On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 12:05 +1000, Paul Gear wrote:
> David Ryder wrote:
> > ...
> > First, I sincerely apologise for mucking people up this morning with two
> > emails I should have written when not being interrupted.
> 
> We all have our moments.  :-)
> 
> > ...
> > I am trying to convert 124.9MB of 18 mp3 files to wav format. (Actually,
> > a lot of mp3's but this is my 'test' case in Hardy).
> > ...
> > Can anybody help please? I need to convert a lot of files (preferably by
> > gui because of the volume I have to do) and want the best quality for cd
> > burning. (K3b is not an option for me. The only burning program I have
> > ever found successful is Imgburn via Wine.)
> 
> The one thing i can't get past when reading your emails is: WHY?  Why
> would you want to do this?  K3B has a perfectly good MP3-to-CD-audio
> converter.  I've never encountered anything that K3B couldn't burn that
> wasn't my fault.  If K3B and the Gnome equivalents are not working,
> there is very likely something wrong with your CD drive or media.
> 
> If you don't have any joy working out what's wrong with the native CD
> burners, another option might be Audacity, although i'm guessing that
> what you meant above was that you would prefer NOT to do it with a GUI.
>  Another command-line option would be mpg321:
> 	mpg321 --wav file.wav file.mp3
> 
> Paul