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.
>
> 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. 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)
What I ended up doing was: rip on the laptop with "Sound Juicer" (except for
one track I expanded with mpg321) and lay out on the desktop with a
spreadsheet. scp:ed the wavs to the desktop (where all the tools are).
THEN I found that all the wavs from CD were 22k mono. (wodim threw a
wobbly. Good wodim.) 22k I could deal with, but mono is right out.
Re-ripped on both with "cdparanoia" (many hands^Wdrives make light work).
scp:ed the wavs from the laptop to the desktop as they were ripped. New
version of the mp3 arrived, re-expanded that. Verified (with aplay and
file) that all the wavs are _really_ 44k stereo. Burned with wodim.
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