[Cialug] Linux (ubuntu) burning

[Matt Stanton]

I haven't used either of these programs because none of the three 
computers I have ubuntu installed on has a CD/DVD burner, but while 
looking around on the web I noticed that Brasero uses gstreamer to do 
all the audio gruntwork (and likely the video stuff too?).  I would 
check to make sure that gstreamer is handling mp3s properly, first.  
MP3s have always been a source of trouble for me on linux because of the 
licensing issues, and any 'fix' you may have followed to make mp3s play 
may not have actually 'solved' the problem.  There was a way in the past 
to make mp3s play using xmms, but I'm not sure that it actually made 
mp3s recognizable to other programs.

In ubuntu there are several different gstreamer plugins that handle a 
variety of free/open-source and patented/licensed codecs:
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly?  In ubuntu 7.10 the mp3 functionality 
was in the 'ugly' gstreamer package.  Pop open Synaptic and see if you 
have these plugins installed already.  You may have to enable software 
sources for multiverse, restricted, etc to make these packages 
available.  If you're like me and you tend not to pay a whole lot of 
attention to licensing and whatnot, then I'd recommend enabling all the 
sources and just pulling down all the gstreamer plugins, but otherwise 
you should talk to someone who knows something.  Luckily, none of my 
ubuntu installs does much other than running server software (Ubuntu 
8.04LTS Server) or keeping an eye on servers (Ubuntu 10.04LTS Netbook 
Remix), so I haven't had to deal with those issues... I assume my iPod 
Touch is properly licensed to play mp3s, and I assume that if Windows 7 
isn't, Microsoft can foot the bill.  Maybe I'll have a look on my 
netbook to see if transcoding works, though.

--Matt

On 6/2/2010 9:34 PM, Jason Warden wrote:
> Hey & hello -
> After a few years not really using Linux I dived back in and dedicated 
> by main machine to Ubuntu. I am STILL aglow over how easy the install 
> is. I used all the big distros from the early 2000s, Mandrake, SuSE, 
> and am amazed how far the desktop has come. No configuring anything in 
> /etc, no hardware that didn't work right, none of the old hassles. 
> Very easy to find the software to play proprietary software like mp3s 
> or wmvs . Synaptic works and even after I installed everything under 
> the sun it still works. (still have nightmares over urmpi) Very 
> impressed. The only real difficulty I had was finding a music player 
> that worked with my Creative Zen mp3 player but once I got Amarok 
> working (it needed a couple tweaks) I am flying.
> I do have one question, and I'm sure there's an idiot-proof solution 
> but I can't find it. I tried the two major cd burning programs for 
> burning audio, the Brasero and k3b. Brasero looks good but for me 
> doesn't work - every time it gets to transcoding mp3s it crashes and 
> leaves a weird looking file in my temp drive. k3b, better, but won't 
> autotranscode mp3s I drop in - I have to make 'em .wavs in a term 
> window and then I can burn. Is there a way to either make k3b behave 
> with mp3s or is there some wonderful program I don't know exists?
>
> (also, what the heck happened to xmms? I got a lot of 'stuff' from 
> synaptic but nothing gives me the traditional xmms. Which is a shame 
> because it had a really easy way to make flacs and mp3s and whatever 
> you want into .wavs...)
>
> -Jason
>
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