Hi,

I just bought a compatible mp3 "cd player". It can play "MP3 CD", but I have
not much idea about such thing. I have mp3 files, and I usually burn my
cd with the Unix burncd tool. I wonder wether I have to do something like
burncd -f /dev/acd0 data file1.mp3 file2.mp3 ... fixate
or use first mkisofs for producing some cd.iso file and then
burncd -f /dev/acd0 data cd.iso fixate

Could someone help me?

--
Thomas

"Thomas" wrote in message
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Hi,

I just bought a compatible mp3 "cd player". It can play "MP3 CD", but I
have
not much idea about such thing.

Usually the unit will have a manual which will describe what an "MP3 CD" is.
But very quickly, it's simply a CD-R (or CD-RW, if your player supports it)
burned as a Data CD with a bunch of MP3 files, optionally sorted into
folders. Your mp3 "cd player" will likely have limits on how many MP3 files
can be on the CD and how many folders you can have. Also, there may be a
limit to the depth of subfolders you can have, so keep it simple when you
burn your CD-R or CD-RW.

I have mp3 files, and I usually burn my
cd with the Unix burncd tool. I wonder wether I have to do something like
burncd -f /dev/acd0 data file1.mp3 file2.mp3 ... fixate
or use first mkisofs for producing some cd.iso file and then
burncd -f /dev/acd0 data cd.iso fixate

Could someone help me?

I've got zero experience with burning CD-R's in Linux. Maybe you should use
a CD-RW to play with so you can your Linux commands right without throwing
away a bunch of coasters.

Jeff
--
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a
little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor
safety"
- B. Franklin, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919)

Thomas wrote:
Hi,

I just bought a compatible mp3 "cd player". It can play "MP3 CD", but I have
not much idea about such thing. I have mp3 files, and I usually burn my
cd with the Unix burncd tool. I wonder wether I have to do something like
burncd -f /dev/acd0 data file1.mp3 file2.mp3 ... fixate
or use first mkisofs for producing some cd.iso file and then
burncd -f /dev/acd0 data cd.iso fixate

Could someone help me?

--
Thomas

Burn an iso 9660 format CDR(orW) with the MP3s files on it.

CD

Thomas writes:

I just bought a compatible mp3 "cd player". It can play "MP3 CD", but I have
not much idea about such thing. I have mp3 files, and I usually burn my
cd with the Unix burncd tool. I wonder wether I have to do something like
burncd -f /dev/acd0 data file1.mp3 file2.mp3 ... fixate
or use first mkisofs for producing some cd.iso file and then
burncd -f /dev/acd0 data cd.iso fixate

Could someone help me?

Do the second thing; i.e., use mkisofs, usually with -J -r.
Your best bet is to put each album into its own directory and
put the mp3s into those directories, 1 deep. The manuals for
these players usually say that they can't handle arbitrarily
complex file structures. I have one player that skips files if
their file names exceed some unknown magical length, and maybe
for unknown other reasons, too. I have had good luck with ISO
8859-1 file names and bad luck with UTF-8.

--
J. Porter Clark

J. Porter Clark wrote:


Do the second thing; i.e., use mkisofs, usually with -J -r.
Your best bet is to put each album into its own directory and
put the mp3s into those directories, 1 deep. The manuals for
these players usually say that they can't handle arbitrarily
complex file structures. I have one player that skips files if
their file names exceed some unknown magical length, and maybe
for unknown other reasons, too.

To find the max filename length try fltelmi which may need a -t
,-o, -tal,-ly, -un, -int, -uit, +ive suffix (or two) to work properly
depend on whichever distribution, version , and build you are using.

geoff