DESCRIPTION
mp3isofs is a patch for mkisofs.
It will provide the capacity to burn on CD the files in alphabetic order.
The main use of this patched mkisofs is to build MP3 CDs.
MP3 CD Players, like the Philips eXpanium, will then read mp3s in a correct order, if you've named mp3 files, taking into account their track number.
Example:
Deftones - 01 - Feiticeira.mp3
Deftones - 02 - Digital Bath.mp3
Deftones - 03 - Elite.mp3
These files will now be burnt in alphabetic order, which is the same order from
the Deftones album.
And people will be able to listen their favorites mp3 albums with their MP3 CD
player, as they would do it with the audio CD in an old CD Player.
HOW TO USE
mp3isofs is a patch for mkisofs, so you will continue to use the mkisofs binary.
But, when you want to have your files burnt in alphabetical order, you'll just
have to add the option -jsort. It is documented when you do mkisofs --help:
-jsort Sort directory contents according to their Joliet name
As you can see, it's very simple.
If you're using some frontend to mkisofs and cdrecord (eg.: GnomeToaster), don't
forget to add the -jsort option in your frontend configuration of mkisofs use.
For instance, in GnomeToaster, go in Preferences, then ISO9660 options, and
modify the field "Create ISO Track with" by adding -jsort somewhere in the line.
Mine looks like this:
mkisofs$eltorito$msession$getts -quiet -V "fsedit_volid" -f -J -jsort -r "fsedit_destpath"
NOTE ABOUT mkisofs
mkisofs is now part of the package cdrtools. The latest cdrtools tarball is available at: ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/cdrtools-2.01.tar.bz2
The patch must be applied on mkisofs from cdrtools-2.01 or later. There is a patch for the old mkisofs-1.13. Previous versions of mkisofs should never be used to burn your MP3. In the worst case, your MP3 CD Player would only recognize ONE MP3!!!
INSTALL
To install, read INSTALL file.
COPYING AND DISTRIBUTION
This software is open-source and is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
THE END
Hope you'll enjoy listening your mp3 burnt with mp3isofs. mp3isofs homepage: http://mp3isofs.sourceforge.net Hubert Verstraete (hubs@users.sourceforge.net)