[clenny]

I want to burn an audio CD but every program I try to use gives me an unsupported format message. They're all mp3, which is a common audio file format. So what am I doing wrong here? It's probably real simple but I'm at a loss here cuz I've never had any problems burning audio using other OSes.Is there a program I can use to convert the format or something? I've tried AcidRip, K3b, KAudiocreator and serpertine.

[comprookie20]

What distro, some don't support mp3's out of the box.
Do you have cdrecord, CDDA2WAV, Cdparanoia, mpg123 or mpg321 and lame installed? This is a little old but it explains the process;
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO...TO.html#ss10.1
You should be able to do it with k3b, you just need to install the other software.

[clenny]

My distro is ubuntu 6.0.6 LTS. So you say need to install some additional software to get this to work. Okay, I'll see if I can do that and get it to work. I'll let you know how it goes.

[clenny]

I installed lame, mpg123 and mpg321. the other packages weren't found on my puter but I'm still getting the unsupported file type message. What now?

[CouchMaster]

Everything you ever wanted to know about Ubuntu - http://www.ubuntuforums.org/

[clenny]

Thanks Couchmaster, I'm GTG now. before today, I never thought of mp3 as a proprietary format but it has a patent and everything. Oh well you live and learn.