burning cds

[Alexander Poslavsky]

On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 06:44:40 -0800, Bill Stoye <skiffworks at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Unable to burn/write an audio CD, reading the user-list email I stumbled
> upon Maximilian Gerlach's note to someone recommending to use 'mp3burn';
> following his instructions, and after only a few glitches I was able to
> burn an audio CD in Ubuntu. Following is an edited version of what
> transpired.
> 
> >From Maxi:
> I can recommend you the tool 'mp3burn'. It's in universe.
> $"mp3burn /path/to/mp3s/*".
> 
> Bill:
> Using 'Synapic', installed 'mp3burn', tried "mp3burn /path/to/mp3s/*"
> and received, "... does not exist or invalid audio file..."
> 
> Maxi:
> Do you have an atapi, or a scsi writer?
> >From the output[omitted] it seems to me that it is atapi. In this case
> you either have to give the correct command line switches (with -o
> "..."), or, what I would suggest, edit the /etc/cdrecord/cdrecord. Just
> look for the device that is your cd writer
>        cat /var/log/dmesg |grep CD
> and then edit the /etc/cdrecord/cdrecord like this:
>        CDR_DEVICE=cdrw
>        cdrw=/dev/hdc     16       16m
> where /dev/hdc should be the link to your drive and the (first) 16 the
> speed it burns. If many of your cd's fail to burn properly, try 16,
> which works fine for me (altough I have got a 48x writer).
> 
> Bill:
> Made these changes suggested in '/etc/cdrecord/cdrecord':
> $"cat /var/log/dmesg |grep CD" to get the name of the Devices
> and then edited '/etc/cdrecord/cdrecord' as follows:
> 
>         CDR_DEVICE=cdrw [removed yamaha(?)]
>         cdrw=/dev/hdd     24      24m
> 
> The following command worked perfect:
> bill at skiffworks ~$
> mp3burn /home/bill/Mp3/hank_williams/24_of_hank_williams_greatest_hits/*
> 
> I did go to 24 on the speed, I've not had a failure writing an audio CD
> at that speed, yet... that is, once I've gotten it to work. The cheap
> BTC burner works very well, if only the operator worked as well.
> 
> It burned all the audio files in the directory
> '/24_of_hank_williams_greatest_hits', tested OK in the CD-ROM, the home
> and vehicle CD players, so I guess it encoded and wrote it from a .ogg
> to a .wav(?) file.
> 
> Maxi suggested that I send the email on to the documentation team; I
> summarized the emails leaving out what I felt was irrelevant; will be
> happy to send them all on and hope this is of some help.

very nice, we'll try it first and then write a wiki page out of it.
Thanks a lot.

and if you have more of these ... 

greets, Alexander Poslavsky Ubuntu Doc Team