Thursday, April 03, 2008

Burn a music CD on Ubuntu

The application K3b is very good for this purpose, except for one problem: it doesn't support MP3->CD out of the box. On K3b's startup screen, it says:

"Mp3 Audio Decoder plugin not found.
K3b could not load or find the Mp3 decoder plugin. This means that you will not be able to create Audio CDs from Mp3 files. Many Linux distributions do not include Mp3 support for legal reasons.
Solution: To enable Mp3 support, please install the MAD Mp3 decoding library as well as the K3b MAD Mp3 decoder plugin (the latter may already be installed but not functional due to the missing libmad). Some distributions allow installation of Mp3 support via an online update tool (i.e. SuSE's YOU)."

Fortunately the solution is extremely simple:
1) open your terminal
2) execute this:
sudo apt-get install libk3b2-mp3

Now you could drag-and-drop MP3 tracks into K3b.

You might ask: who still listens to CD? That's another story :D

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