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

[Rob Page]

I use graveman and the 'create audio cd' option, which just seems to
work with whatever (audio) files i tell it to.

Rob.

On 12/20/06, Adam Funk <A.Funk at dcs.shef.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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!
>
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