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sk8harddiefast

sk8harddiefast

I have ~ 500 cd music on .wma (windows) format. I want to copy them on my desktop and convert them to .mp3.
The first problem is that cannot mount cd and somewhere i read that audio cd's cannot be mounted.
Any idea? How to do it?
 
sk8harddiefast said:
I have ~ 500 cd music on .wma (windows) format. I want to copy them on my desktop and convert them to .mp3.
The first problem is that cannot mount cd and somewhere i read that audio cd's cannot be mounted.
Any idea? How to do it?
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What you have is a normal yellow/orange book disc ("data" or "MP3" CD), not a red book disc ("audio" CD). You should be able to mount it normally like anything else (harddisk, floppy, pendrive, etc.)

Su to root and try this:
# mount -t cd9660 /dev/DeviceN /cdrom
replacing Device by acd for an ATAPI drive and cd for a SCSI one, and N with the device node number (most likely 0).
If this works, then you may not have the appropriate permissions to access the device.
 
What you have is a normal yellow/orange book disc ("data" or "MP3" CD), not a red book disc ("audio" CD).
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No. I mean a read book disk ("audio" CD). Not original but burn as audio disk. Not as data disk with mp3 inside
 
Okay then the songs are not .wma files like you said but audio tracks.
As you already know, audio CDs shouldn't be mounted. Simply put them in the machine and use the tools mentioned above.
 
You could simply rip the CDs. I guess windows media player could accomplish this task and could convert it to any format you want.
 
sk8harddiefast said:
I have ~ 500 cd music on .wma (windows) format. I want to copy them on my desktop and convert them to .mp3.
The first problem is that cannot mount cd and somewhere i read that audio cd's cannot be mounted.
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Of course the audio CD can not be mounted. It doesn't have a file system. When you play audio CDs you just put CD into the drive and press play. You do not even need OS to play the music as long as you have analog audio cable between CDROM and the audio card. Ripping audio is best done abcde as previously suggested. Abcde is just a script which will use cdparanoia to encode CDs but also to create the data base with the song titles and authors.

Now, your problem is that you do not have honest audio CDs. You have some M$ copressed proprietary crap called WMA. You will have to use MPlayer to play the idiotic files and then pipe it through the LAME into MP3 containers.

Code: 
for i in *.wma ; do mplayer -vo null -vc dummy -af resample=44100 -ao pcm -waveheader "$i" && \ 
lame -m j -h --vbr-new -b 160 audiodump.wav -o "`basename "$i" .wma`.mp3"; done; rm -f audiodump.wav

There is also a simple Perl script pacpl that can do it for you http://pacpl.sourceforge.net/ automatically.
 
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