now I did it ..

[Ken D'Ambrosio]

Mike: in your mail below, you don't explicitly specify -- but I suspect 
-- that you're trying to mount an audio CD.  You'll have some 
difficulty, as there's nothing that would traditionally be called a 
"filesystem" on an audio CD -- and certainly no "files" to be copied.  
Put a regular data CD in, and I bet you see it fine from within your 
file browser.

As far as actually ripping .wav files off a CD, and converting them to 
.mp3 files:

- grip really is the way to fly; it's a great little application.  And 
it does convert the CD to .mp3 files; look under the "rip" tab, and 
select "Rip+Encode".  Note that grip, itself, doesn't actually do the 
conversion; instead, it invokes a suitable MP3 encoder specified on the 
"Config" -> "Encode" tab, which brings us to

- lame does a great job of encoding MP3 files from .wav files.  In the 
Encode tab in my grip, I have the following fields:
Encoder executable: /usr/bin/lame
Encoder command-line: -h -b %b %w %m
Encode file format: ~/mp3/%A/%d/%t-%n.mp3

Lastly, I also use lame as a stand-alone application for conversion of 
my .wav voicemail files to mp3.  The syntax I use there is:
lame -b 16 --quiet filename.wav filename.mp3

Note that the "-b 16" means do 16 kHz sampling, which kinda sucks, but 
is more than sufficient for voicemail.  You probably want more, or just 
leave the flag out and go with the default of 128.

-Ken

Mike Medai wrote:

> Okay, now I did it!  Messing around trying to sort out how to convert 
> .wav files to .mp3 to conserve some drive space.  I looked at Grip 
> (until it finally dawned on me that it is meant for Gnome .. I'm 
> playing with KDE <sigh>), Lame, and a couple of other programs.  Grip 
> played the CD's really well .. and that was it.  Kaudiocreator never 
> even spotted the CD drive nor did some of the other utilities I messed 
> with also.
>
> And to top it all off now, I can't even access the drive at all either 
> via with the file browser or through the terminal.  The standard KDE 
> CD player happily plays the CD, but now I can't pull files down.
>
> My desktop sometimes recognizes that there is a music cd in the drive 
> (the icon changes to reflect this if I drop one in during a session, 
> but not when I initially boot the system), but that is all I can 
> accomplish.  When trying to access the drive with the file browser or 
> even trying to mount/view it with the terminal I get:
>
> /dev/cdrom: Input/output error
> mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified
>
> Tracking down the file /etc/fstab shows this:
>
> /dev/cdrecorder      /media/cdrecorder    auto       
> ro,noauto,user,exec   0 0
> /dev/cdrom           /media/cdrom         auto       
> ro,noauto,user,exec   0 0
>
> Tried mounting the drive using the -t iso9660 option and it balked at 
> that too.
>
> How do I fix this?
> Mike
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