I've had no trouble with flac in K3b. I've only ever had issues with
mp3, because of the whole patent issue. Simply finding and installing
the appropriate package from a non-US repo (medibuntu,
debian-multimedia, rpmfusion etc) added that support.
On Sat, 6 Dec 2008 4:22 pm, Eben King wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Dec 2008, Paul Bransford wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 14:14 -0500, Eben King wrote:
>>> I need to design the music for an event. Not compose, just assemble
>>> from
>>> various sources. What's good software that'll take loose WAV/AIFF,
>>> FLAC,
>>> and MP3 files, compute their times and let me design a CD that way?
>
>> K3b (for KDE) seems pretty good and powerful, as long as you have all
>> the extra codecs installed. Depending on your stance, and your distro's
>> stance, you may need to violate some patents as per usual with media.
>>
>> If you use Gnome, take a look at Brasero. I've used it minimally, so I
>> couldn't tell you the about flexibility or format support.
>
> Thanks. Now that I think about it, FLAC support isn't a big deal,
> since I have to expand the files anyway as an intermediate step to
> either making a CD or recompressing as MP3.
>
>> You can also compute track times yourself, just remember that for a
>> normal CD, you will have a 2-second pre-gap for every track, and
>> modern CDs are 80m. I've been successful overburning up to 85m, but
>> that's a stretch. Basically, don't worry about a few seconds.
>
> No worries. I'll get the timing today, but there probably won't be
> anywhere near that much music needed.
>
>> Sox is a good all-around utility that you can use to convert your
>> intended media to WAV, and from there you could even drive the burning
>> tools yourself (wodim, cdrecord, etc)
>
> I plan on doing that for final burn, unless the software works the
> first time.
>
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