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Re: [RndTbl] CD Writing and MP3's using RH 7.3 - Valhalla
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 14 May '02

14 May '02

According to Gilles Detillieux: > According to Mel Seder: ... > > 1) Which app would you suggest I use for burning CD-R's? > > I've been happy with gcombust. I've tried XCDRoast and keasycd and found > them lacking. (That was over a year ago, mind you!) I usually install > the latest alpha releases of the cdrtools packages from the falsehope > mirror on MUUG's server, along with their build of gcombust. I've mostly > used this only for data CDs, though, and not audio. I used an older > version of gcombust over a year ago to copy an audio CD directly from > drive to drive, but several of the tracks it copied ended prematurely. > I'd expect the more recent versions to be more reliable now, but I > haven't pursued this further. (Newer versions support cdparanoia, > while the older one I used before didn't.) The gtoaster package is included with Red Hat 7.2 and 7.3. I haven't used it myself, but one of our professors uses it and seems quite happy with it. -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)cs.umanitoba.ca> Dept. of Computer Science Web: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~gedetil/ University of Manitoba Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R3T 2N2 Fax: (204)474-7609

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Problem burning cd using cdrtoaster-1.12:
by S/C Conway 14 May '02

14 May '02

Hardware: Sony CRX140S CD ReWritable Recorder Software RH 7.2 kernel 2.4.9-13 sox-12.17.1-4 cdrecord-1.10-4 cdrecord-devel-1.10-4 Using cdrtoaster-1.12 to burn an MP3 to an audio cd results in never recorded before "chipmunks" coaster. The audio sounds like a 33rpm record played at 45rpm. This may be a bad analogy for the CD exposed generation. Analyzing the script from cdrtoaster the creation of a CD takes place in two steps. One step converts the mp3 to wav the next step burns the cd. Audio convert: mpg123 -s sample1.mp3|sox -t raw -w -s -c 2 -r 44100 - -t wav sample1.wav CD burn: cdrecord -v -eject dev=/dev/sg0 speed=4 -audio -pad /home/username/sample1.wav I have tried doing the audio convert manually an it produces a chipmunks wav file. If I change the rate parameter to -r 22050 the wav file is produced correctly. The new file is not in the correct format for cdrecord to handle and produces an error message "Inappropiate audio coding". According to my reading a wav file must be created with 16bit 44100hz sample rate. I have also tried changing the mp3 player to the GPL version mpg321-0.1.5-1 with no success. I have found no indication at the SOX site of any problems with the software. This is my first foray into CD burning using Linux. The burner works fine under windows95 and its software. I have made a decision to eliminate as many windows machines as I can. My project is the burner/scanner box. Sean

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Re: [RndTbl] Thanks! and kudzu?
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 14 May '02

14 May '02

According to millward: > What's kudzu ? I've read the man mount but there's > no kudzu there. What does it do? It's a utility that runs at system startup to check your hardware configuration, and allow you to setup/configure any new or changed hardware. If your system will be stable after you've set it up, you can always disable it as a startup service to speed things up a bit... chkconfig kudzu off However, I like to leave it on, so it catches any hardware changes I made, or anything that may "mysteriously" have changed. -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)cs.umanitoba.ca> Dept. of Computer Science Web: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~gedetil/ University of Manitoba Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R3T 2N2 Fax: (204)474-7609

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Huge audio .wav files in Red Hat
by millward 13 May '02

13 May '02

How big can I make a file in Red Hat 7.2 ? I'd like to copy an audio tape to the hard drive in one huge .wav file, and burn it to CD. I've got a few gigs of hard drive space to play with.

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Thanks! and kudzu?
by millward 13 May '02

13 May '02

Thanks to the good advice I got from this roundtable I've got cdparanoi and cdrecord working just fine. Originally, cdrcord -scanbus showed nothing, but after I followed your instructions, all worked out OK. I got a couple of CDs ripped and burned and they play just fine. cdparanoia -v -s -B cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,1,0 -audio -pad track*.cdc.wav But a question or two about fstab Right now I've got: For my normal Creative cdrom /dev/sd0 /mnt/cdrom1 auto defaults,ro,noauto,usr,exec 0 0 For the OptoRite burner /dev/sd1 /mnt/cdrom2 iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 The last one was created by Red Hat. What's kudzu ? I've read the man mount but there's no kudzu there. What does it do? .

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Re: [RndTbl] RH 7.3 Valhalla - Wine
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 10 May '02

10 May '02

According to Mel Seder: > Todays snail mail of MUUGlines included an article on Wine. > > Does anyone know if this new and improved version of Wine is in the 7.3 > install and if it is not, how easy/hard is getting Wine configured,up > and running. Im mostly interested in running Quicken 2002 Deluxe. Red Hat 7.3 includes the wine-20020327-1 RPM package. I don't know how that compares to the WineX 2.0 software mentioned in the newsletter article. > Other than eventually making a change to my D-Link router to accomodate > any changes by my Cable ISP (Shaw), running Quicken and the hooking up > with my daughter using my Intel Create and Share Computer Cam I don't > have and need and certainly no desire to use M$ Windows. > > P.S. I enjoy MUUGlines and the current issue is indeed a keeper :-) Thanks for the feedback. We always appreciate that, and I'm sure Kevin, our newsletter editor, especially would. -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)cs.umanitoba.ca> Dept. of Computer Science Web: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~gedetil/ University of Manitoba Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R3T 2N2 Fax: (204)474-7609

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RH 7.3 Valhalla - Wine
by Mel Seder 10 May '02

10 May '02

Todays snail mail of MUUGlines included an article on Wine. Does anyone know if this new and improved version of Wine is in the 7.3 install and if it is not, how easy/hard is getting Wine configured,up and running. Im mostly interested in running Quicken 2002 Deluxe. Other than eventually making a change to my D-Link router to accomodate any changes by my Cable ISP (Shaw), running Quicken and the hooking up with my daughter using my Intel Create and Share Computer Cam I don't have and need and certainly no desire to use M$ Windows. P.S. I enjoy MUUGlines and the current issue is indeed a keeper :-) melseder le petite escargot yahoo.com ===== "The sooner you make five thousand mistakes, the sooner you will be able to correct them." - Kimon Nicolaides __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Mother's Day is May 12th! http://shopping.yahoo.com

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cdrecord dev
by millward 10 May '02

10 May '02

Thanks for the information on SCSI emulation in Red Hat. It's good to know I don't have to do anything about that. I've read the CD-writter Howto and the man cdrecord, but I can't figure out what to enter for the 'dev' argument for cdrecord. The example shows dev=0,6,0 But that's for a SCSI device and mine is ATAPI. My burner is /dev/hdc in fstab In the BIOS its a secondary master. In windoze its E for the cdrom part and F for the burner I'm trying to copy some old tape songs into a CD. The program rec and the Gnome mixer are excellent for getting the songs into .wav files. All I need to do now is get cdrecord going. cdrecord -v speed=4 -pad -audio dev=?,?,? Any ideas about dev ? Oh, you'll notice I'm using my new, id. For some reason, somebody didn't like 'author'

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SCSI emulation in Red Hat 7.2?
by author 09 May '02

09 May '02

Does Red Hat 7.2 have SCSI emulation in its kernel or do I have to install it myself? This is for burning CDs with cdrecord. For some strange reason, cdrecord only works with SCSI.

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Re: [RndTbl] SCSI emulation in Red Hat 7.2?
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 09 May '02

09 May '02

According to author: > Does Red Hat 7.2 have SCSI emulation in its kernel or > do I have to install it myself? > This is for burning CDs with cdrecord. The ide-scsi driver has been included as a kernel module at least since RH 6.2, and auto-detection and configuration of an IDE CD-RW drive has been in the installer for about as long too. > For some strange reason, cdrecord only works with SCSI. Yeah, that may be just historical, since most of these devices were only SCSI-based at first, and there was reasonably flexible support for them using the generic SCSI driver (sg) in the kernel. The ATAPI (IDE) drives implement essentially the same SCSI command set, so the ide-scsi driver was a simple and reasonable kludge to get them to work without having to rewrite a whole bunch of applications. -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)cs.umanitoba.ca> Dept. of Computer Science Web: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~gedetil/ University of Manitoba Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R3T 2N2 Fax: (204)474-7609

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