Burning audio CDs on Linux
I just had a blast from the past!
Being somewhat spoiled by the current state of Linux-on-the-desktop (Gnome in my case) I have become used to inserting a blank CD, point Nautilus to burn:///, dragging and dropping a few files into it, and finally clicking the “Burn to CD” button. Works beautifully. Of course I thought that Nautilus’ CD-burning would know about audio CDs. So I dragged a few WAV files into Nautilus and clicked the button. Voilà, a data CD containing a few Wav files! Not really what I wanted.
So, to avoid this in the future here is the command line to use:
wodim -v dev=0,0,0 speed=40 -audio -pad *.wav
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If you are running a standard GNOME desktop, Serpentine Audio CD Creator should be available for you under Applications -> Sound & Video.
Or what about Brasero, it’s installed by default at least since Feisty.
@Mattias, I found serpentine after I installed the meta-package
gnome, with justgnome-coreandgnome-desktopit wasn’t there.@Tilo, sure if I ran Ubuntu maybe
It’s good to know for the future though, so thanks for mentioning it.