Ok, I can’t figure this out. How can I configure K3B to burn an audio cd so that the only format is burns is .CDA? As it is, if I burn an audio CD, I get .OOG, .WAV and .CDA, each in their respective folders. Needless to say, when I put the CD in the CD player in my car, for example, nothing plays. What gives? IMHO, in some respects, and I can’t believe I’m saying this, windows is better, however, I’m determined to never go back to whine-doze and the BSOD. Thanks in advance
Scott >:)
scott,
when you select your project type if you choose audio cd when you drag and drop your music files it should convert them when you burn the disc i hope that helps
Yes, it does convert them. After I select audio cd, drag and drop my .mp3 files and then burn the cd, the files are converted to .wav, .oog and .cda and the cd has the following directory structure:
CDA (dir)
Full CD (dir)
Information (dir)
Oog Vorbis (dir)
.wav files
This happens time and time again and I also went back to KDE3.5.10 on OS 11.0 as I wasn’t that impressed with KDE 4 on OS11.1
In KDE3, if you popped an audio cd in and browsed to it with konqeror, it showed you an MP3, OGG, WAV & CDA file structure (possibly FLAC too).
These dirs are not actually on the cd, they are magically ‘created’ by the IO slave that is used to access the cd. Virtual directories I guess. You could drag the MP3 folder off the CD, and it would convert the audio into mp3 files in the destination folder for you, same for the FLAC and OGG folders. Or you can play them with amarok etc off the cd, as mp3 files
Now, I haven’t put an audio cd in KDE4 recently, because it used to ignore them totally. If they have recently fixed it, you may be seeing the same thing.
I’d check your burned CD in another cd player, see if its your car that doesn’t like the brand of CDR. Also, try looking at the CD from the console - it doesn’t use KIO slaves to read it. Dunno how you ‘mount’ a CDA audio cd by hand though…
Edit: try playing the cd with something like mplayer - not a KDE app so it will just read the CD audio (if there is any).
If this K3B is the KDE3 version then make sure that you have the k3b-codecs package installed.