[ALUG] Re: [linux-users] MP3s to AudioCD tracks?

[Adam Funk]

On Wednesday 20 December 2006 19:59, Ted Harding wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> I have a bunch of MP3s, and would like to convert them to
> AudioCD files so that I can burn them as succesive tracks
> on an Audio CD (i.e. in particular, you can pick a track
> on a CD player, or play the lot through in one go).

I use sox for this.

http://sox.sourceforge.net/
(There are packages for Ubuntu and Debian, and probably most other 
distros.)

The cdrecord command is fairly picky about the details of the WAVE file 
format (sampling rate, data size, etc), so 

$ sox foo.mp3 -w -c 2 -r 44100 foo.wav


And here's my (probably dodgy) Perl program to do a bunch of these as a 
batch:

#!/usr/bin/perl
#  For each "*.wav" produces "*.mp3".
while (@ARGV>0) {
    $oldfile = shift(@ARGV) ;
    if ($oldfile =~ /(.*)\.\w+/) {
        $base = $1 ;
    }
    else {
        $base = $oldfile ;
    }
    $newfile = $base . "_w.wav" ;
    @command = ("sox", $oldfile, "-w", "-c", "2", 
                "-r", "44100", $newfile);
    print ("about to run:   @command\n");
    system(@command) ;
    print ("done with:      $base\n") ;
}



> Happy Christmas and New Year to All!

Same from me!