K3B Audio CD Problems/Alternatives?

[Xplorer4x4]

When using k3b stable, I can't get aac files to load. I have tried installing some ubuntu codec packs(forgot which ones), and that made no difference. So I switched to the k3b-git from kde goodies. It loads aac files fine. However, for some reason, certain songs will just randomly cut off when I play them back on my car stereo. So I am wondering how I can fix this and if there are any qt alternatives for burning audio files as an audio cd.

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[GreyGeek]

Brasero. It's in the repository.

[Xplorer4x4]

Thanks, but as I said, I was looking for a qt based alternative, not a gtk alternative.

[HalationEffect]

Silicon Empire - http://getsilicon.org/

As far as I can tell (with Google's help), K3B and Silicon Empire are the only Qt based general purpose optical disk authoring programs.

[Xplorer4x4]

Thanks, I tried a ton of googleing but had no luck, hence this thread. I was starting to wonder if there were any other qt based apps. Will try it tomorrow.

Is it possible that the burn engine is the culprit? I had burned these files in Windows using cdburnerxp, so I know the files work. I think some were edited using Free Audio Dub to edit out intros and junk. It was the only windows based GUI I could find. If I could easily pinpoint the positions that needed cut cli would do but this is one area where a GUI is far far more efficient then cli. I like to do quite a few tasks via cli actually, but this aint one. Getting side tracked but wondered if there is maybe an ffmpeg gui that can edit audio with out remux?

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[vinnywright]

audacity is a great audio editor .....try it.

allso check in K3b's settings>configure k3b>programs tab for missing programs for things like transcoading and converting ,,transcoad and ffmpeg come to mind

VINNY

[Xplorer4x4]

audacity is a great audio editor .....try it.

allso check in K3b's settings>configure k3b>programs tab for missing programs for things like transcoading and converting ,,transcoad and ffmpeg come to mind

VINNY

Never cared for audacity's gui. I tried it awhile back under windows looking in to alternatives to sony soundforge. The problem with bith those apps, as far as I can see, is the reencode the audio. Thats why I used the free no name app Free Audio Dub, it was like avidemux for video, but specifically for audio.



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[Xplorer4x4]

I tried Silicon Empire but it cant load aac files. I have the kubuntu bad codecs installed, even tried the gstreamer bad codecs. No luck. In k3b I checked the plug ins and saw ffmpeg listed as a plug in but the description says for wma files or another rare format. Otherwise I dont see any that would handle aac. I found a guide about installing the nero aac codec for use with k3b, but it appears to be for encoding, not decoding.

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[vinnywright]

ok I did not have any .aac files to test with ,,,,,so I made some ,well striped the aac audio from some .mp4's , anyway k3b would crash as soon as I tried to drag the .aac files from the preview pane to the audio cd project window .
I got around this by first converting the .aac or m4a files to .wav with winff (gui for ffmpeg) and then k3b will take them no problem .

really should not half to go through all that though

VINNY

[Xplorer4x4]

Yeah all my aac files started as flv or mp4 demuxed from videos. The crashing issue is a known bug. It was fixed in the release for oneric I think, and I know it works ok using the git builds which have been really stable in my experience so far.

I was thinking about the convert to wav idea, but was unsure if any quality would be lost when going from lossy to lossless. The quality of the audio for these aac files are not usually top quality anyways.

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[vinnywright]

Yeah all my aac files started as flv or mp4 demuxed from videos. The crashing issue is a known bug. It was fixed in the release for oneric I think,

well I am on precise K3b 2.0.2 KDE-4.9.00

and I know it works ok using the git builds which have been really stable in my experience so far.

could you link me to that ?

I was thinking about the convert to wav idea, but was unsure if any quality would be lost when going from lossy to lossless. The quality of the audio for these aac files are not usually top quality anyways.

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that is going to happen any way as an audio cd is .wav

VINNY

[Xplorer4x4]

well I am on precise K3b 2.0.2 KDE-4.9.00

could you link me to that ?
that is going to happen any way as an audio cd is .wav

VINNY

I dont recall the version with the bug but it's whatever comes from the standard repos.

K3b-git packages are available in the kde goodies ppa along with amarok-git builds. I find the amarok builds to be more stable then the standard repo version as well. If you want the git builds you can grab them here:
https://launchpad.net/~schumski/+archive/kde-goodies
If you prefer the upstream(proper term?) Release go to the ubuntu packages site and grab the deb from there. You will have to grab the 2 dependencies manually as well, but when using the git builds it requires no further action as it has no external dependencies. I am wondering if the problem lies with the git-builds needing a newer codec package but from what I can tell the "bad codecs" version does not appear to be any newer in oneric then it does for precise. Actually sumski said that the git builds have the codec support built right in so I cant see that as a problem.

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