problems converting MP3s to WAVs

[Tim Wunder]

On 5/25/2005 1:09 PM, I believe that Net Llama! wrote:
> On Tue, 24 May 2005, Tim Wunder wrote:
> 
>>On Tuesday 24 May 2005 7:30 pm, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, 24 May 2005, Tim Wunder wrote:
>>>
>>>>On 5/24/2005 3:07 PM, I believe that Net Llama! wrote:
>>
>><snippage of command line crapola>
>>
>>>>Taken from http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.2
>>>
>>>Thanks, but no dice.  Using the above command, at speed=1 resulted in a CD
>>>filled with tracks that were nothing but white noise.  *sigh*
>>
>>You don't want to hear this, but start up k3b, create a new audio project,
>>copy your MP3s to the project window, then click Burn.
>>Just burned a fine CD from an MP3 and played it on my CD-only player, no
>>problems...
>>
>>Oh, that's right, you don't like KDE...;)
>>FWIW, I believe that k3b uses libmad to do the encoding/decoding...
> 
> 
> Amazingly, k3b worked.  Unfortunately, I can't find anyplace that it shows
> me what command it used to encode the wav's.  The debug output starts with
> the cdrecord command, which isn't the problem.
> 

AIUI, it doesn't use a command to encode a WAV, but just the libmad 
library and cdrecord.
http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/
Mebbe you could get some reasonable output from madplay piped through 
sox (or cdrecord)...

If your end goal is an audio CD created from MP3s, why do you need/want 
to create WAV files? WAV files are simply file structures used to encode 
audio data ripped from CD audio (CDDA). It has added file header 
information that audio CDs don't (and can't) use. At least that's my 
understanding of it (I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong).

HTH,
Tim