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mkaudioCD VERSION 0.4.1

This is just a small application that help you to convert mp3 files to wav files and make audio cd's. I will NOT pay for broken CD-R disks. Use it one your own risk.

INSTALL

1. Copy mkaudioCD and burn part in to /usr/bin/ or /usr/local/bin/
2. Run mkaudioCD and enjoy!

HOWTO USE IT:

1. Run the mkaudioCD, and select your mp3 directory or files
2. Edit the playlist
3. Check options
4. Press the BURN button

   REQUIREMENT

This scripts require that you have the following components allready installed on the computer.

-perl
-tk
-cdrecord
- lame
-mpg123 (optionally)
-mp3tag (optionally)
-mp3info (optionally)

CONFIGURE MAKE_AUDIO:

Run the application and then you have some settings.

Edit playlist:
This is the order the songs will be in on the complete audio-cd

Device

This is the only one that can be tricky and therefor I will explain how you should configure that line. To configure the device line you need to know the id your cdwriter have. Type "cdrecord -scanbus" from the console to see the device id to use. If you dont see anything you have to read a "cd-writing-howto" or someting like that. I will not help anyone with that.

It should look somewhat like this:

$ cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 1.11a15 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.22
Using libscg version 'schily-0.5'
scsibus0:

        0,0,0     0) 'MITSUMI ' 'CR-4802TE       ' '1.4D' Removable CD-ROM
        0,1,0     1) *

In this case my device s 0,0,0

Type the device id you get from that command in the device field.

Speed

Speed is the speed you want to burn the cd in. You have to know how fast your cdwriter is. Use 2 or 4 if you dont know.

Remove option:
If you dont want to keep the garbage wav files after writing press this.

Make Audio-cd:
Just a safety option. If you want to write the cd set make_audiocd to true. If this is set to false the script will only convert the files to wav.

CHANGELOG

0.4.1

• change dot directory to $ENV{HOME}/.mkaudio/ and data dir to $ENV{HOME}/.mkaudio/data/
• add "Play/Stop" button and functions, that play mp3's
• disable MP3info in this version, it have some bugs with colors in mp3tag output
• add "Process output" window and some IPC functions
• split application on to two parts, mkaudioCD and burn_part
• clean code
• check bug with file extensions in upper case
• check bug with call undefined subroutine NEW
• remove "Remove Raw files" checkbutton,that not needed now
• useing lame as mp3 decoder, NOT mpg123!
• sox not needed at that version
• some GUI design changes 0.4.0
• add "Clear list"
• add "Add single file"
• add "Load xmms playlist"
• rewrite update_lb function
• rewrite internal work with playlist
• add some key bindings
• some bugfixes

0.3.0

        -make some checks in update_lb function
        -add icons in error messages box's
        -add "Fast blank CD-RW" checkbutton and blanking function
        -add some key bindings, see Help
        -added "mp3 info" button and window if mp3tag is installed
        -removed the "Remove mp3 files" checkbutton
        -fix "spaces in dir names" bug
        -removed the "mpg123 verbose" checkbutton
        -fixed a path bug
        -fixed bugs of some events
        -add key bindings, <ESC> works in all windows
        -set Playlist colors in old monitor style(green-black)
        -exclude gtk-shell and use perl::Tk widget DirTree for playlist update
        -check required software(cdrecord,sox,mpg123) and gives error message
        -added couter for songs in playlist
        -smarter delete selection.
0.2.3
        - window geometry
        - works with config file (load,save && syntax)
        - checking required tools (mpg123,cdrecord)
        - load mp3 files from some other directory, not $ENV{HOME}/audio_cd/

0.2.2 Support for "strange" chars in filenames(bug) 0.2.1 Possible to make cd's from wav files directly.

0.2     Frist official release. Completly rewritten in perl/tk.
0.1     Unreleased shell script of the same application

TODO

• fadeing
• CD-TEXT
• check bugs if you find it

BUGS

• MP3info function have bug with colors in mp3tag output and disabled in that version

FEEDBACK

Let me know any problems you run into. It might can be fixed. And like I said, all improvments of the script is welcome!

Authors

Andreas Henningsson     founder         <andreas.henningsson@telia.com> (0.1 - 0.2.2)
Andrey Andruschenko     developer       <stsphinx@belgtts.ru> (0.2.3 and better...)

cheers
Dev Team

Visit mkaudio homepage at: http://mkaudio.sf.net/