[Gllug] Re: MP3-CDs

[Robert Bannocks]

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>On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 03:12:47PM +0100, Robert Bannocks wrote:
>>/ >>/ Hi all,
>/>/ >/>/ 
>/>/ >/>/ Can anyone tell me how I burn and MP3-CD under linix.  By MP3-CD mean 
>/>/ >a />/ CD-R disk
>/>/ >/>/ with a format that works in my new portable CD payer which supports 
>/>/ >"MP3 />/ Playback" (from
>/>/ >/>/ a CD disk).  Quite a bit of googling has just confused me.  Most sites 
>/>/ >/>/ seem to suggest converting
>/>/ >/>/ the MP3s into a standard audio CD.  This is not what I want as the MP3 
>/>/ >/>/ play back seems to support
>/>/ >/>/ mutiple albums on one physical CD.
>/>/ >/
>/>/ >Create an ISO9660 filesystem containing the MP3s, and burn that to the
>/>/ >disk in DAO mode.
>/>/ >
>/>/ >mkisofs -JR /path/to/MP3s | cdrecord -v fs=6m dev=XX,XX -
>/>/ >where XX,XX is the scsi id of your cd writer.
>/>/ >
>/>/ >/joel
>/>/ 
>/>/ 
>/>/ Thanks, - I take it the directory will become the album name?
>/
>I wouldn't assume that at all. If you're lucky the player will read
>track metadata from the ID3 tags.
>
>>/ Is there any significance to the nameing of the files?
>/
>Uh... Depends on your player software. RTFM.
>
>...unless you mean that as a general question...
>
>>/ How do I control the order in which the player will play them by default?
>/
>Again, RTFM for your specific player. You may find that it plays 0-9
>first, then A-Z, or it may play directories first or playlist files or
>.... - find out what you intend to play them with and read its
>documentation. Or just burn a CD and find out.
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Thanks, unfortunatly the player does not come with that much 
documentation I had assumed this was part of some
standard, silly me.  As you say I will just have to burn and 
see....thanks again..

>HTH,
>
>/joel
>
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