cdbakeoven problems

[gimp2x]

Compilation list contains 14 files.
Of those, 14 MP3 and 0 Ogg Vorbis file(s) will be decompressed.
Starting to decompress MP3/Ogg Vorbis file(s)!
Decompressing 'One day in your life' (1 of 14), percent done:
Failed to decompress MP3/Ogg Vorbis files!
Failed to remove '/tmp/cdbo_audio_7_19_20_40_2.wav'!


what is wrong?!

[gimp2x]

yes?

[masseya]

Are you using the oggvorbis USE variable?
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[erik21d]

I have that same problem when I run cdbakeoven when I use the 'run command' or menu.

Funny thing is it works perfectly when I run it from the console.

Anyone have an idea why this happens?

[raluke]

[raluke]

I've done a lot of searching of the Gentoo forums and Google, and have come to the conclusion that burning mp3 files to an audio CD is considered problematic, although there are solutions.

First of all, the best method I've found for actually doing this is a shell script by zen_guerilla in this thread: Burning MP3s to Audio, which uses the mpg123 utility in /usr/bin. I've tried it, the conversion (mp3 -> wav) takes about 5 minutes to produce about an hour of audio. It takes another few minutes to burn the CD.

Second of all, there is an awful lot of vague information out there, as well as information I could just not confirm in my experimentation. Specifically, there are a lot of web pages, usenet posts, and Gentoo forum posts claiming that the various gui cd burning programs (Arson, XCDRoast, cdbakeover, gtoaster, gcombust, SimpleCDRX, etc.) can handle mp3-to-audio burning. And they all fail to do so, at least for me. Many seem to be depending on mpg123 and they do not use it correctly, or at least they don't use it correctly as installed on my Gentoo box. Your mileage may vary because your computer may be set up more "correctly" than my own.

The program that seems to me to have the best chance of doing this is Arson (see arson.sourceforge.net), but the current version seems to have an mpg123 option hard-coded incorrectly. See the post reporting this on Sourceforge at this link. However that report was made in the middle of November and has apparently not been fixed yet.

So, my conclusion is that until Arson is fixed, I'm stuck using the shell script whenever I want to burn mp3 files to audio, although it seems to work great when I want to burn ogg files to audio, or make file backups to CDR.

Based on other comments I've found on the Gentoo forum site, I'm going to get a lot of disagreement from others, if anybody reads this. So, please, correct me if I'm wrong, because I've been at this a while and would like to find a better (more convenient) answer.

-Robert

[raluke]

For whatever it's worth, I've been using K3B successfully for some time now. See http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/pkgs/app-cdr/k3b.xml. Since it has been a while since my last post to this thread, I cannot remember exactly why I didn't try K3B then. But I've installed it a couple of times now, and it sets up and works extremely well. Also, I have no trouble burning ogg, mp3, or wav files to audio CDs. Burning data CDs works well, too, although that isn't terribly unique to K3B.

Hope this helps.
-Robert

[ectospasm]

I get the same problem w/ cdbakeoven --but--

Burning mp3's (at least the decoding part--haven't gotten as far as burning the CD yet) works if I launch cdbakeoven from the command line. This is why it worked for me last week, because I had launched it from bash and not from my root menu.

I'm gonna try to run a simple shell script that launches cdbakeoven, and see if that fixes the problem.

I've tried to use arson for burning, but I've run into problems because it apparently doesn't like source files (.ogg, .mp3, etc) that have spaces in the filename. Unless this mpg123 problem is what was causing that... I'll have to check.
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