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Burning a regular CD in Ubuntu

Jan 19, 2011 2:43AM PST

Can anyone help me in telling me what software i need, or how i can burn a regular format CD, to play in CD players that dont play MP3's? I cant seem to figure it out. Ubuntu 10.10...


Any help would be great


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options for CD burning
Jan 19, 2011 10:34AM PST

I do not care for brasero.
Option #1 is go to Tools and remove or disable all plugins (this from ubuntu forums).
Option #2 is what I would do.
(The idea is to replace brasero with something better, of which K3B is a good choice)
at the command line, enter "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get purge brasero"; then
a) simply install k3b -- "sudo apt-get -f install k3b" OR
b) install all possible dependencies of k3b prior to a) with "sudo apt-get build-dep k3b"
Then, to make another option is available, "sudo apt-get -f install wodim"
After which I would perform "sudo apt-get autoclean"
Reboot with "sudo apt-get init 6" and see if the K3B program functions as desired.

You may want to look into how to use "wodim" to burn from the command line, as well (#3).

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.. Ubuntu.
Jan 19, 2011 12:24PM PST

Ubuntu is made to make your life easy. It comes with Brasero, use it.

to use it, open a terminal and type man brasero

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Nah
Jan 24, 2011 4:31PM PST

That just opens manual page for brasero.
Brasero is simply in start menus. Grin

Or if you like CLI so much then simply:
brasero
You can add & in end of like to detach it from terminal window:
brasero &

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I know it opens brasero.
Jan 24, 2011 10:30PM PST

He should read the manual It's not our job to write and explain the whole-entire program.

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Another option
Jan 23, 2011 1:34PM PST

Xfburn is another option -- lighter and quicker than K3B, it is preferred by many (as evidenced by a recent poll in LF). And besides, the dependencies are less (XFCE vs. KDE for K3B), so less disk space is needed. The downside? Not as pretty and not as many options as K3B and K9Copy.

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Use
Mar 22, 2011 9:50AM PDT

K3B is more like Nero.

Once is open click on the bottom for new project, choose Audio CD and add the files that you need. Click on Convert Tracks, click on Burn and you done.


PS.
In Mandriva 2010.2 is installed already.
Located under Tools.

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^This
Mar 31, 2011 4:01PM PDT
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Codecs
Apr 11, 2011 1:47AM PDT

The main issue you're going to face, even if you use the default burner (Brasero) is the problem of codecs. Decoding mp3 or other files isn't as big a problem, as you can get a legal decoder for mp3 through fluendo (just google search for fluendo mp3 codec). Encoding is where the trouble comes. It depends on how "legal" you want to be with your burning, because if you live stateside, using gstreamer plugins for mp3 encoding are borderline illegal, as far as I understand. My main advice for you is to download the trial version of Nero for Linux (lasts a month) and it includes the necessary legal codecs for encoding mp3s in that program. In that month period, just burn all you want, and then shell out the $20 if you want to continue using it.

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Apr 13, 2011 7:19AM PDT

The codecs are legal for the end user to install themselves, they just can't be packaged into the release by the distribution without the distros paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in licensing fees per codec due to craptacular copyright laws in the US.

The same is the reason Mesa is still stuck with OpenGL 2.1, while most of OpenGL 3.3 and 4.1 can be implemented, core components can't be included without paying ludicrous amounts of money http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/plain/docs/GL3.txt Not to mention that we have S3 Texture Compression implemented, but they aren't allowed to build it in even though it's pretty much a requirement for all modern games and in older games give a very good improvement in performance.

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That's not entirely true. For example DVD PLAYERS
Apr 13, 2011 7:38AM PDT

In the USA are still beholden to mpegla.com to pay up for playback of DVD.

VLC PLAYER and a few others get around this because of their country of origin but no distribution wants to take on the legal battle concerning that codec.

The topic of encoders and decoders is a deep one. I like the story at http://www.gpb.org/news/2011/03/23/the-mp3-a-history-of-innovation-and-betrayal where you find out how MP3 encoding leaked and the rest is history.
Bob