> 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]> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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