Conversion to WAV is, obviously, not needed here. The advantage is definitely being able to squeeze ten times more music onto one CD (a very approximate figure).įirst I would recommend the filename cleanup steps outlined at the beginning of this document. With increasing popularity of CD/MP3 players burning data CDs for listening purposes become practical. This section is a work in progress, you're looking at initial, very sparse version. Then, assuming that the TOC file is named cd.toc the command to burn the cd is simply: cdrdao write cd.toc Assuming your cd recorder device file is /dev/scd0, create the link (as root) as follows: ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrecorder The cdrdao by default uses the device /dev/cdrecorder, which should be a link to the cdwriter device. The xcdroast creates similar TOC files, there are also examples in testtocs directory of cdrdao source. There can be a second number providing the length (time) of file to record. The 0 (zero) after the wave filename means start from the beginning of the file. Here is a self-explanatory example: CD_DA Second way is to simply create such file yourself in a text editor of your choice.
wav files as an argument and produces a cd.toc file. First is to use a shell script, distributed with cdrdao source (in contrib directory, called generate_toc.sh. The cdrdao program uses description files called TOC (Table Of Contents, of course). The program for burning CDs in DAO mode is cdrdao, available from SourceForge. Here is the complete command on my system: cdrecord dev=1,1,0 -eject speed=2 -pad -audio *.wavĪnd, with kernel 2.6: cdrecord dev=ATAPI:1,1,0 -eject speed=2 -pad -audio *.wavĭAO, Disc-At-Once, is as of now the only method for burning a CD without a 2-second pause between the tracks. So, the cdrecord command line will contain dev=1,1,0 to specify theĭevice. Once you have our CD-writer recognized as aįind out what's the "dev" parameter to cdrecord. The following line to /etc/nf: append=" hdc=ide-scsi"Īlso, if your kernel doesn't automatically load ide-scsi module, add To instruct the kernel that you want to treat it as a SCSI device, add As of kernel 2.6, you can use ATAPI directly, without SCSI emulation, by prepending ATAPI: to the device specification. If you're using ATAPI writer, with older kernel, use SCSIĮmulation (kernel module ide-scsi). I use cdrecord forĬommand-line burning and XCDROAST for gui. There are many programs to create CDs from WAV files. This mini-HOWTO outlines the steps that may I'm assuming you wish to burn a CD with the collection of songs you obtainedįrom different sources, all varying quality, but you want to get theīest-sounding CD possible. Īlso, look at the CD Burning Resources section for more information. For in-depth information about MP3 files, please look at The Linux MP3įor information about CD creation in general as well as CD burners, refer toĬD-Writing-HOWTO by Winfried Trümper, available at. This HOWTO is just about one thing - putting MP3 music on a CD, so that you can If you you just want to make a CD filled with music, and not be bothered with all of the details, I have good news for you: Kees Cook ( ) put together a tool based on this HOWTO, which automates all of the tasks outlined here. Normalizes the volume, so that's why I worked out my own CD-burning recipe. But I haven't seen a single tool that also Many programs to burn music CDs from MP3 files, and many of them do theĬonversion transparently. Second, many of the files on the Internet are notĬD-compatible (16 bit, stereo, 44.1 kHz) and have to be converted. Sources.Very often volume level between songs varies greatly. I usually burn music CDs as a mix - different songs from different
This mini-HOWTO was created because of my experience with burning music CDsĪnd lack of some specific information about sound normalization on the