RadioEar

mindwave, You didn't receive help from Mandriva Club either?

;)

And...

let me rephrase that

 

maybe i'm coming off as a stereotypically xenophobic american.

 

i'm a gun toten flag wavin reagan votem republican card carrying citizen of the good ol u s of a.

:huh: sigh...

Guy, I was with you until this;

...maybe i'm coming off like a xenophobic american,...

gees... Interesting read here, something to keep track of...

I might start trusting them again if they ever answer the voice-mail I left at their customer support number...four years ago.

Sounds like more Windows device driver problems, that's what giving me fits on another machine with some Sony software. At lest now that's what Windows is able to report.

Well, thanks guys, this helps a lot, scarecrow; thanks for the link, real helpfull info here.

tyme; What? Your never wrong! :P

"secure"?

So with audio CDs Konqueror is behaving like a audio CD ripper... showing you what output formats it can give.

I noticed in Windows XP running "My Computer", now show some contents of an audio CD as CDA files.

With Linux KDE 3.4, running "Konqueror", will show WAV files with others in directories; CDA, FLAC ,MP3 and OGG Vorbis. including an Information Dir. and Full CD Dir.

My question is; What I see in Konqueror is what's really on the CD? All the files copy to the HD just fine using Konqueror.

I thought I would try this;

MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the

GNU General Public License for more details.

 

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software

Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

============================================================================== =

 

This is the short help; for all options use 'flac --help'; for even more

instructions use 'flac --explain'

 

To encode:

flac [-#] [iNPUTFILE [...]]

 

-# is -0 (fastest compression) to -8 (highest compression); -5 is the defaul t

 

To decode:

flac -d [iNPUTFILE [...]]

 

To test:

flac -t [iNPUTFILE [...]]

[woodworker@THE_MACHINE ~]$

It turns out that this is a encoder from whatever to flac, this is not what I want.

Gul apparently did it with K3B:

 

But it was easier then I thought. I installed flac with easy-urpmi. Then I loaded K3b and imported those .flac-files into an audio-cd project and K3b started burning. No problems.

 

Apparently, installing flac:

 

urpmi flac

 

should get the flac support, and then import the flac files into an audio-cd project and burn the CD.

 

I'm going to try this again... If anyone remembers what I was trying to do.

I can't make audio CDs with K3B from the FLAC format

 

[root@THE_MACHINE woodworker]# urpmi flac

ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrakelinux/devel/2006.0/i586/media/main
/flac-1.1.2-4mdk.i586.rpm
installing flac-1.1.2-4mdk.i586.rpm from /var/cache/urpmi/rpms
Preparing...		#############################################
  1/1: flac	 #############################################
[root@THE_MACHINE woodworker]#

 

OK, K3B still will not handle flac files.

Come on guys, I find it hard to believe that nobody here knows how to do this... I'm even providing console results,

and speaking of console results, does this look right? :huh:

greg2; I installed audioconverter, now I'm in the process of looking for it. I have no idea where the installer put it.

OK, K3B still will not handle flac files.

urpmi audiokonverter

 

will give you an 'easy to use' right-click converter, then you can burn the converted files to cd

 

I know this isn't exactly what you are after... but it will work.

[root@THE_MACHINE woodworker]# urpmi audiokonverter
no package named audiokonverter
[root@THE_MACHINE woodworker]#

No, No good.

A bump.

 

Hello Radioear. Have you tried the routine I outlined in my previous post ???.

 

It is worth a try if you haven't.

 

Cheers. John.

I know it's been a while, I could not get the conversion, I would like to try to get K3B to do it, and it's possible.

Gul apparently did it with K3B:

 

But it was easier then I thought. I installed flac with easy-urpmi. Then I loaded K3b and imported those .flac-files into an audio-cd project and K3b started burning. No problems.

 

Apparently, installing flac:

 

urpmi flac

 

should get the flac support, and then import the flac files into an audio-cd project and burn the CD.

I'm going to try this again... If anyone remembers what I was trying to do.

I can't make audio CDs with K3B from the FLAC format

[root@THE_MACHINE woodworker]# urpmi flac

ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrakelinux/devel/2006.0/i586/media/main/flac-1.1.2-4mdk.i586.rpm
installing flac-1.1.2-4mdk.i586.rpm from /var/cache/urpmi/rpms
Preparing...					 #############################################
  1/1: flac				  #############################################
[root@THE_MACHINE woodworker]#

OK, K3B still will not handle flac files.

Actually, at this point, I would not mind paying for Linux. 2006 Free was my first fucntional version and it has proven to me to be a viable operating system. I like KDE. Now, it just needs to over come the Big M$. In other words; become a household name.

I don't know how to change mine.... :o ;)

Original quote:-

"I just started ripping audio CDs in the FLAC format and storing them on the hard drive. Amorok plays them back just fine. I discovered however, I can't make audio CDs with K3B in the FLAC format,...."

 

End of story.

I see where you are coming from now. "I can't make audio CDs with K3B in the FLAC format,...." instead it could have been I can't make audio CDs with K3B FROM the FLAC format,.... Anyway I can't seem to setup K3B to do just that.

As I said in the first place you can burn a flac file to a cd but it will still be a data cd and NOT a MUSIC CD.

The same goes for OGG, MP3 or any other form of compressed digital music.

 

Cheers. John.

Hey John... As long as they play in the CD player in the truck, van or in the woodshop they are music CDs or as good, What ever... they play, and sound good to boot!

Radioear. You are ripping a cd music disc to flac and expecting to make a music disc with that flac???.

Can't be done with any burner unless the flac is converted back to cd music format so what is the point of doing all that???

When you rip to flac it becomes a digital file so you can only store it as DATA file on a cd-r or cd-rw.

That is why you rip in the first place, namely so it becomes a digita data file that can be compressed and so take up less space on a cd-r disc and consequently store much more music on a disc than the usual cd music format. Some of the compression formats are inheritly lossy and others much less so. Obviously for the best practical quality, you want the least loss for the best possible sound. If you want the best possible sound then you stick with the next to zero loss format which is the music cd format.

 

Your seeming problem is not a problem at all and has nothing to do with K3B or any other burner program.

Cheers. John.

AussieJohn, What I'm doing is building play list CDs from CDs or downloads from the net, for my listening pleasure in the vehicle or my woodshop.

This was something I did as a teen with 8 tracks and then cassettes. Today, I'm using CDs. It's quick and easy on a computer to build a play list a then burn it. With M$ I was using .wav files and Linux .ogg files. .flac was something wanted to try out.

And yes, you can burn CDs from .flac files.

RadioEar, get a broadband connection at home and join the rest of the world!!! (And, it looks like you might want to learn Polish! :lol: ) It is easier to be at the computer and trouble shoot rather than getting the info and looking later, only to encounter more questions. Get the net!

By the way, Dear, dear brother of mine, Why... why do I NOT have a manual for K3B, hmmm?

And for that matter, why don't I have manuals for half of the stuff in KDE?

Unfortunately it didn't work, any idea why?

With M$ Windows I was able to work out problems to some extent, how ever I have no idea of Linux architecture.

As far as I can tell, I need .flac decoder and .flac encoder to get K3B to burn audio CDs using flac.

The fellow in the post had only Gnometoaster, I would like to use K3B if possible.

Thanks for the response.

I just started ripping audio CDs in the FLAC format and storing them on the hard drive. Amorok plays them back just fine. I discovered however, I can't make audio CDs with K3B in the FLAC format, I guess I need some support files, can somebody here point me in the right direction where I find them?

All I can say is; Good for Bill Gates, if he retires.