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How to burn Demovibes as Audio CD ?  
 

Of course you can burn the MP3 file in one only Audio CD track, but you can also obtain proper tracks separation with the CUE file provided with each Demovibes compilation.

Visit Cuecue !
Cuecue is a suite (library, command line program) brought to you by Kassoulet.
It converts .cue + [.ogg|.flac|.wav|.mp3] to .cue + .bin, in order to make them easier to burn with standard burning software.

Cdrwin, Feurio and Fireburner can import the CUE-sheets too, but it's not really easy, and these programs are not freeware.

 
 

How to play Demovibes ?  
 

Winamp can read CUE-sheets track informations with the MP3CUE plugin.

 
 

MP3/WAV/CUE files with Linux (by mRyOuNg, thank you !)  
 

Burning...

You get an MP3 or WAV file of an Audio CD but, it's a huge file. You, for sure,
don't want to burn it on a CD as one long Audio Track. That's why in most cases
a CUE file is joined with the MP3/WAV file. This CUE file, used by most windows burner
applications, describes, in our case, the TOC or Table of Contents of the final CD.
It contains informations related to the number of tracks, and the duration of each track.

This howto describes a way to burn this set of MP3/WAV/CUE files to a CD with Linux

Requirements

First, you need to get and install some applications:
- CDRDAO
This one contains a optional GUI front end called gnomecdmaster, but it's so buggy for
the moment, that i prefer to use the command line.
- An MP3 decoder such as lame or mpg123 (required if you have an mp3 file instead of a wav file)
http://lame.sourceforge.net/
http://www.mpg123.de/

Now, we'll considered from this point to the end of this howto that you have a myMp3.mp3 file
(or a myWav.wav) and a myCue.cue file you want to burn

1. (Optional) Decoding MP3 file to WAV file

if you have a MP3 file instead of a WAV file, you must first convert it to a WAV file.
for it, use lame like this ...
lame --decode myMp3.mp3 myWav.wav
or you can do it with mpg123 ...
mpg123 -w myWav.wav myMp3.mp3
now you should have a myWav.wav ...

2. Converting cue file to toc file (.toc are input file for cdrdao)

cdrdao provides some useful command, and the most interesting one is cue2toc.
cue2toc converts cue file to toc file ... perfect exactly what we need so ...
cue2toc -o myToc.toc -w myWav.wav myCue.cue
now, you should have a new file ... called myToc.toc, which is our input file for cdrdao

3. Burning

Maybe you already know how to burn with cdrdao ... but, for the record, i'll explain what to do
First, ...
cdrdao scanbus
give you a list of installed burner on your computer. For example:
0,0,0: LITE-ON , LTR-16102B , OS0J
0,1,0: PIONEER , DVD-RW DVR-106D, 1.07
keep in mind the bus address of the burner you want to use (for example, i want to use the PIONEER so i keep in mind the 0,1,0 bus address)

now, you must choose a driver for your burner ... check cdrdao website to see if your burner
is on the list, and which driver should be used with it.
In most case, generic-mmc should work ...

Anyway, it's now time to burn ... Put a blank disk in your burner and type the following command ...
cdrdao write --device 0,1,0 --driver generic-mmc myToc.toc
It'll write the CD described by the toc file myToc.toc, on the device 0,1,0 (my PIONEER burner)
with the generic-mmc driver.

Finally, it's done ... w00t ;) you now have a perfect Audio CD ;)

Listen to MP3/CUE

if you don't want to burn a CD to listen to the file with the appropriate track duration,
you can use an XMMS plugin to do it.

you can find this at the following address: http://brianvictor.tripod.com/mp3cue.htm

 
 

I'm new to Demoscene, how to watch demos ?  
 

You may notice that each tune of the compilations has a "Pouet.net link" associated. When clicked, the link leads to the Pouet.net website where you'll be able to download the production, read the comments from Pouet visitors and why not, write your appreciation in your turn.

You'll find plenty of usefull additional resources in the Demoscene links section.

 
 
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