> If your burning it to CD try EcliptRoaster (eroaster) it should do what
> you want.

Hmm. I have not yet tried that. Here's what I've tried,

mpg123 | sox - well, OK, but harder to automate, but only really proven
way to ensure that what you have at the end of a conversion is really a
44.1k AIFF WAV suitable for burning. That's important especially if you
have (as I do) a number of MP3s in 22050 mono or what have you. Specif-
ically, I'm doing a number of CBSRMT radio show mp3s to CDs, and these
shows are ca. 45 minutes long, so if your WAV files aren't in the 450
meg or so range, something is amiss and you'll end up with a CD of high
pitched voices, like playing a 3 3/4 ips tape at 7 1/2 ips :).

k3b - OK at the conversion step, dismal at the burn step. Often the
thing segfaults in the middle of the burn and I end up with a locked
drive, only seemingly way to rectify this is to reboot. Net result, of
course, is a coaster.

cdbakeoven -- Seemingly OK in the burn step. Conversion step not OK,
they haven't done it right. I end up with data files on the CD, and net
result is a coaster with wonderful white noise. Otherwise, I get the
wrong size WAV as described above. Very nice looking interface. I have
2.0beta source but haven't been able to compile it yet.

xcdroast - didn't like it, don't use it.

cdrecord - well great at burning the CD, what can I say :)

gcombust - not too terribly useful for mp3s. The one time I tried it,
even after ensuring I was making an audio cd and not a data cd, it wrote
mp3s to the cd as mp3s, no conversion needed ;). Good so far for data
cds, and maybe i'll try burning a cd's worth of mp3s with it if I get
that sony portable that can play mp3 cd's as well as music cd's :). 

xmms-diskwriter: well this will do the job of mp3 to wav conversion when
others fail - specifically VBR encoded files. I had mpg123, mplayer and
lame --decode all fail with segmentation faults/core dump when I was
trying to do this last night. Very easy to use, just select the
diskwriter plugin, path etc., then select the files you want, and it
puts WAVs in the directory, then run cdrecord. Downside - doesn't know
that it needs to resample 22050 mono to 44100 stereo - I just tried that
with a file this morning.

mplayer - well dumpstream is an option but it doesn't do any conversion,
just seems to end up with a stream dump file in the same format as the
original. It also segfaulted when presented with a VBR mp3.

I got a number of spare cdrs so maybe I'll try eroaster :).

Magnus writes;

> > I know this is a little bit of topic but can anyone recommend a good=20
> > program that converts MP3 to Wave with really nice quality ?

Well I am not sure what is meant by 'really nice quality' since the
wav can only be as good as the original mp3. For most serious
conversion, I use a mpg123 pipeline to sox, and ensure that all the
rates, channels are set up for the input as well as output formats. OK
for one at a time deals but a bit harder to automate because the
filenames are usually long with lots of saces like 'foo fighers 1 of 14
something song.mp3 :) 

> Kiran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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