Guides

CD Burner

The cdburner is available to Netsoc members during our room open hours. The cd burner is on a linux machine, so instructions are included below:

• First of all, before you come down to the room, create images of the cds you want to create. Use the mkisofs command for this:
  • The simplest way to do this is to create a directory for the CD on Matrix.
  • Copy all the files you want on the CD into this directory.
  • cd into this directory and run the command:
    mkisofs -J -r -l -o ../cdimage.iso .
    This will create the image in the parent directory.
  • The -J, -r and -l options above are used to preserve long file names on the CD.
  • For more information on this command, see the mkisofs manpage.
  • To rip an audio CD, use this command on murdock:
    cdda2wav -v255 -B -Owav -D /dev/cdrom0 then cdrecord -v -dao -pad -useinfo *.wav
  • Make as many CDs as you like and put the images somewhere.
• Make as many images as you need and come down to the Netsoc room when there's a committee member there.
• We'll log on to the CD Burner machine and create your CDs for you. This is a simple matter of copying your cd images over to the local machine and running cdrecord cdimage.iso with each blank CD.
• Audio CDs are burnt using cdrecord -dao -pad -useinfo *.wav.
• To convert a directory of MP3s to WAVs use for i in *.mp3; do lame --decode "$i" "`basename "$i" .mp3`.wav"; done on murdock.
• To copy an data cd use: cdrecord -isosize /dev/cdrom0.