Creating audio CDs in Hoary.

[Lex Hider]

On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 16:41 +0100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Marco Bonetti">
> 
> > [sorry for the off-thread but I'm writing from webmail]
> > 
> > I've noticed this program which can be very useful:
> > http://www.dropline.net/optimystic/
> > 
> > it looks well integrated into gnome
> 
> Yeah, we've been watching optimystic, gnome-baker and coaster - there are no
> packages for any of them so far, however. That would be a good first project
> for anyone interested in seeing one of these apps in Ubuntu.
> 
> - Jeff
> 
Hi,
I started this thread originally.
Seeing as Ubuntu is unlikely to have a supported solution for audio CD
creation until Hoary+1, Hoary+2; I think we need something on the wiki
about this because this question is only going to keep coming up. Next
time this comes up we can just answer something like: check out
ubuntulinux.org/wiki/AudioCDCreation

along the lines of:
Currently, audio CD creation application in Gnome aren't mature or
stable enough to be included in Ubuntu. You may find K3b available in
the universe repositories a useful solution. We will not support k3b due
to the large number of kde libraries it depends upon that we do not have
the resources to maintain.

Then perhaps link to the sites for baker, coaster, any work on
integration with nautilus or rhythmbox, etc.
Perhaps also point to any console apps that can do this [I don't know
what they are] and perhaps give a tip on how to do this from the shell:

e.g.
cdrecord will create audio CDs from wav files.
To convert your ogg vorbis files to wav files is as easy as:

$ oggdec MySong.ogg

A song takes about 7 seconds to decode on my machine.

For flac files:

$ flac --decode MySong.flac

This takes about 4 seconds to decode on my machine.



To burn the CD just type:

$ cdrecord dev=<device-name> *.wav

replace <device-name> with the device name for your cd burner [/dev/hdd
on my machine].

Note that I haven't done this in a while and I'm unsure if this is the
correct way to do this.

Lex.

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