How Do I Burn MP3 onto an audio CD from Linux shell command prompt?

Author: Vivek Gite Last updated: October 21, 2005 5 comments

Recently I decided to burn selected MP3 files on an audio CD from command prompt.

First, you need to convert your mp3 (myfile.mp3) into .wav (myfile.wav) file:
$ mpg123 -w myfile.wav myfile.mp3
Use above command to convert all files to mp3

Then burn all .wav file on to the CD
# cdrecord -dev=ATA:1,0,0 -eject speed=4 -pad -audio *.wav

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Rob Dec 7, 2005 @ 10:58

You can use lame to encode the WAVs to MP3s. Once wav file created using cdparanoia you can use lame to encode the file wav to an MP3:

lame myfile.wav myfile.mp3

lame also supports bitrate option for example to use 256 kilobytes bitrate you can use:

lame -b 256 myfile.wav myfile.mp3

Read man page of lame for all supported options.

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Kan Jun 15, 2007 @ 23:30

to convert all mp3 files at once, do:
for i in *.mp3; do mpg123 -v -w "${i%mp3}wav" "$i"; done

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- ANonymous Jul 16, 2010 @ 22:54
  
  nice
  
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Jake Apr 1, 2011 @ 21:58
To convert all mp3 files, accounting for spaces in names and correcting the “filename.mp3.wav” naming, try:
```
IFS=$'n' ; for i in $(ls |grep mp3$) ; do echo $i ; mpg123 -w `basename $i .mp3`.wav $i ; done
```
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- El_Siurell Apr 22, 2012 @ 10:10
  
  You did not set back IFS:
  add last command :
  IFS=$’ nt’
  
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