On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Mike & Tracy Holt wrote:
>
> Sridhar G wrote:
> >
> > I've a couple of MP3 files. How to write these files to CD as a normal
> Audio
> > CD.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Sridhar
>
> Here is a script of mine. I call it
> makecd. Just copy it into a file and make it executable. Then you just
> give it a list of mp3's on the command line and it writes it. The
> script make some assumptions, but change it to change those assumptions
> should be easy.
>
> assumes:
> 1. You already can write regular data CDs. This means that you have
> SCSI cd-writer, or (more likely) you have SCSI emulation going.
> 2. Your CD-writer is on SCSI device 0. This is almost certainly true if
> you have SCSI emulation ('casue you have either an IDE or parallel-port
> writer), and almost certain false if you have a true SCSI system.
> 3. Your CD-writer can write at 4x speed. If it's recent and it's SCSI
> and/or parallel, this is probably the case, though if you have a slow
> CPU the mp3 decoding might not be able to keep up, and a slower speed
> might be called for. If you have a parallel-port writer, you probably
> can't go past speed=1.
>
> Here's the script, far smaller than the explanation:
> ----cut
> here------------------------------------------------------------------
> #! /bin/csh -f
>
> foreach fn ($*)
> mpg123 -s $fn | cdrecord dev=0,0 speed=4 -audio -pad -swab -nofix -
> end
>
> cdrecord dev=0,0 -fix -eject
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
>
> Hey Brian!
> Question, will this convert the .mp3 to .cda format or will it just place
> the mp3's on a cd? I was under the impression that the later would take
> place and that you had to, at some point, convert the file type (or else not
> be able to use the cd in a normal cd player).
>
> Mike
>
>
err... try a man cdrecord and have a look at what the audio switch does
