---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Frank Elsner frank.elsner@mailbox.org Date: Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 3:39 PM Subject: Re: Audio Disc Burning software recommendation To: Sreyan Chakravarty sreyan32@gmail.com
On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 13:37:08 +0530 Sreyan Chakravarty wrote:
On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 2:34 AM Frank Elsner frank.elsner@mailbox.org wrote:
No. Command line. Manpage exists.
Can you tell me any way to copy a disc using Wodim ? I could not find anything related to copying an existing disc in the man page ?
Wodim can't copy, just burn.
Also when I am burning audio discs do the files need to be in the WAV format or can I directly burn MP3 and it will convert as needed ?
It depends ...
- When you want to burn a Audio-CD to be played by an (old-style) CD-Player the files must be in WAV format, sampling rate must be 44.100 Hz and stereo.
- Newer CD-Players support the MP3-format also for the tracks and you must convert convert WAV to MP3 by your own. Afterwards you burn an ISO 9660 file system. Conversion can be done by lame, burning by growisofs.
HTH, Frank
Sreyan Chakravarty:
Also when I am burning audio discs do the files need to be in the WAV format or can I directly burn MP3 and it will convert as needed?
Frank Elsner:
It depends ...
- When you want to burn a Audio-CD to be played by an (old-style) CD-
Player the files must be in WAV format, sampling rate must be 44.100 Hz and stereo.
- Newer CD-Players support the MP3-format also for the tracks and you
must convert convert WAV to MP3 by your own. Afterwards you burn an ISO 9660 file system.
A compact disc (CDDA - compact disc digital audio) has no files on the disc. It's audio streaming data with a table of contents.
Burning software can take some kinds of audio files, and create a standard CDDA disc. Some burning software is quite flexible, and can convert what you supply into what it needs. Others depend on you supplying the audio files in a specific format (44.1 kHz, as mentioned, but mono is supported as well, and usually as uncompressed WAV files).
If you create a CD-ROM with audio files on it, that's not a compact disc in the ordinary sense. Only some players can handle computer discs with computer audio files on them, and that situation has existed for well over a decade. So new or old, relatively speaking, isn't really part of the equation.
Brasero, for instance, *can* handle a MP3 file to create an audio CD. But it may well depend on some plug-ins and/or CODECs being installed that you haven't got. e.g. gstreamer plugins. MP3 is still considered a bit naughty by some on Fedora, so you may have to get support files from non-fedora repos.
You're probably just missing MP3 support, even if some other applications can play MP3s (some programs support it themselves, and there's several different possible CODECs that are used by different applications).
Doing a search for guides using keywords like these (together)
brasero audio cd from mp3 fedora
may help in your quest, if you can't figure it out yourself. Or perhaps, just a DNF search with mp3 keyword.
I haven't bothered with trying to burn audio CDs on current Fedora, nor on older Fedora's for a couple of years, so I can't supply a prepared solution for this. But, on CentOS, I have these plug-ins installed (more than you'll need):
gstreamer1-libav-1.10.4-2.el7.x86_64 gstreamer1-plugins-good-1.10.4-2.el7.x86_64 PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin-1.1.10-2.el7.centos.x86_64 gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-gtk-1.10.4-3.el7.x86_64 gstreamer1-plugins-bad-freeworld-1.10.4-2.el7.x86_64 gstreamer-tools-0.10.36-7.el7.x86_64 gstreamer1-1.10.4-2.el7.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.23-23.el7.x86_64 gstreamer1-plugins-ugly-free-1.10.4-3.el7.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.31-13.el7.x86_64 gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-1.10.4-3.el7.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.36-10.el7.x86_64 gstreamer1-plugins-ugly-1.10.5-2.el7.x86_64 phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.6.3-3.el7.x86_64 gstreamer1-plugins-base-1.10.4-2.el7.x86_64 gstreamer-0.10.36-7.el7.x86_64
On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 5:40 PM Tim via users users@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
You're probably just missing MP3 support, even if some other applications can play MP3s (some programs support it themselves, and there's several different possible CODECs that are used by different applications).
I haven't bothered with trying to burn audio CDs on current Fedora, nor on older Fedora's for a couple of years, so I can't supply a prepared solution for this. But, on CentOS, I have these plug-ins installed (more than you'll need):
gstreamer1-libav-1.10.4-2.el7.x86_64 gstreamer1-plugins-good-1.10.4-2.el7.x86_64 PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin-1.1.10-2.el7.centos.x86_64 gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-gtk-1.10.4-3.el7.x86_64 gstreamer1-plugins-bad-freeworld-1.10.4-2.el7.x86_64 gstreamer-tools-0.10.36-7.el7.x86_64 gstreamer1-1.10.4-2.el7.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.23-23.el7.x86_64 gstreamer1-plugins-ugly-free-1.10.4-3.el7.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.31-13.el7.x86_64 gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-1.10.4-3.el7.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.36-10.el7.x86_64 gstreamer1-plugins-ugly-1.10.5-2.el7.x86_64 phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.6.3-3.el7.x86_64 gstreamer1-plugins-base-1.10.4-2.el7.x86_64 gstreamer-0.10.36-7.el7.x86_64
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Well I beg to differ. I must have some MP3 support on my system because this is what I have:
$ dnf list --installed *gstreamer* | awk '{print $1}'
PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin.x86_64 gstreamer1.x86_64 gstreamer1-libav.x86_64 gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free.x86_64 gstreamer1-plugins-bad-freeworld.x86_64 gstreamer1-plugins-base.x86_64 gstreamer1-plugins-good.x86_64 gstreamer1-plugins-good-gtk.x86_64 gstreamer1-plugins-good-qt.x86_64 gstreamer1-plugins-ugly.x86_64 gstreamer1-plugins-ugly-free.x86_64 phonon-qt5-backend-gstreamer.x86_64
I may be missing a few, but I think I have most of them.
But the strange thing is, burning is to work well before I updated my system to the latest Fedora 32.
I don't know what changed, but Brasero does not function anymore for audio discs.
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Sreyan Chakravarty -
Tim