Matt Van Stone » kubuntu http://www.mattvanstone.com "Slogans are for suckers." Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:16:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Burning CDs from Amarok with K3b in Kubuntu http://www.mattvanstone.com/2007/06/burning-cds-from-amarok-with-k3b-in-kubuntu/ http://www.mattvanstone.com/2007/06/burning-cds-from-amarok-with-k3b-in-kubuntu/#comments Mon, 25 Jun 2007 04:34:19 +0000 Matt http://www.mattvanstone.com/2007/06/burning-cds-from-amarok-with-k3b-in-kubuntu/ Ubuntu and Kubuntu don’t come with MP3 support right out of the box because they are not opensource. You have to install these restricted packages on your own.

Amarok has a nifty feature where you can right click on an album and choose Burn This Album. It will give you the option to burn it as an audio CD or a data CD and then will launch K3b to burn it.

However, if you dont have the right packages installed K3b wont be able to convert the MP3s to PCM so that it can burn them directly as audio.

Type the following command in the console window to install MP3 conversion support:
sudo apt-get install libk3b2-mp3 libmad0

libmad0 might be installed already. It was for me, but it is required so I added it to the above command. After this try burning the CD again. Worked for me, hope it does for you too.

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