How do you make an audio CD on Ubuntu Linux?
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November 20th, 2008
I downloaded some flv and extracted the pcm track from them with mplayer. I can play the audio on the computer, so that seems to have worked fine.
Next I tried to make an audio CD that would play on a regular cd player from them. I fired up the default burning app (I dont remember what it was called, but it is the one that gets installed by default in ubuntu). I add the .wav files to the audio project, hit the burn button, and it works for 15 mins or so then comes back and says there is not enough room on the disk.
I am using 700M , 80 min CD-R blanks. The app says I have just over an hour of music queued up. I ran du -sh on the folder with all my .wav and it says there are 512M worth of files.
What am I doing wrong? Do I need to encode my audio as something other than pcm/wav? Is there a command line I can use? cdrecord? I have made coasters out of 2 blanks and I am getting frustrated.
TIA
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I think the app I was trying to use to burn the CD was brasero.
the file type of the wav files I extracted is:
$ file test.wav
test.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, stereo 22050 Hz
Is this different from .cda cd audio? Maybe this is the cause? Still brasero does not seem to want to make a CD.
I usually burn cds using rhythmbox it will convert the files for you if need be before burning.
Brasero is the default application indeed. You could try using another burning app like GnomeBaker (though it isn’t maintained anymore). A lot of people swear by k3b, but that doesn’t integrate (visually) into your desktop as well.
Xfburn is also coming up with a new release but I don’t think it’s been released yet, so it might not currently be an option (it used to be unmaintained).
Thank you all for your answers. I could not figure out how to burn anything with rythmbox, but I’ll look into the docs further. I did not want to install all of KDE to get k3b working, so I tried Gnomebaker because it had only one extra dependancy. It worked, but the CD wont play on my wifes really old boombox. I think it has problems with the CD-R.
Thanks again!
Another unmaintained burning application you could try is Graveman. Serpentine is also supposed to be able to burn CD’s and is focused specifically at audio CD’s, but that also doesn’t seem to be maintained anymore.
Is the problem that you are trying to make an actual audio CD? Then it doesn’t matter if there is enough filespace on the CD, what counts is the time. Actually it could be both but I don’ think so. Are you burning more than 80min of audio? And as far as I recall you don’t need to convert the files manually if making an audio CD.
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