Re: [LUG] K3B Question

On 18 July 2013 09:32, Henry Bremridge <henry.bremridge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 08:59:43AM +0100, Neil Winchurst wrote:

Well, lots of answers which are leaving me rather confused at the moment. Here is what I am trying to do.

I have two music CD,s with various tracks on each of course. I want to take just one track from each CD, and transfer just those two tracks to a single CD-R CD. These tracks are being used for a wedding, one for the bride coming in, one for the couple going out.

I could, of course, use the original CD's and find the right track on each one at the right time. I was just trying to find a way to make it easy by having just the two tracks on one CD. That way, no ejecting one CD to replace it with the other, and each time making sure to find the right track.

The problem, of course, is that my computer has just the one CD drive. So I suppose I must copy the tracks to my HD first, and then burn them to the CD-R. Is that right?

By the way I have used K3B a lot, but I have never used Brasero.

I have never used K3B but I would
1) Insert the CD

2) Create a new directory and move to that directory

3) At the command line, in that directory type "cdparanoia -B"

This will add the whole disk by track to your harddrive

Delete the tracks you don't want

4) Repeat step 3 with the other disk

5) Burn the wav files to a new CD

I leave it others to suggest alternatives

Henry's suggestion is very workable.

If you wish to stick with a GUI tool, and you'd like to use the same GUI tool for extracting the audio from your 2 discs and then create a new audio CD with just those 2 tracks, then you can do this all in K3B:

1) Put audio CD 1 into drive

2) On K3B, go Tools -> Rip audio CD

3) Select your required track

4) Click on Start Ripping

5) On the Settings tab, change the Filetype to Wave

6) Make a note of where the file will be saved (the target directory/folder)

7) Click Start Ripping

8) When it has successfully ripped your first track, click the Close button

9) Eject the audio CD

10) Insert the 2nd audio CD into the drive and repeat steps 2-9 for this disc

11) Insert a blank CDR

12) Click on New Project, then on New Audio CD Project

13) In the top-left pane, navigate to the directory/folder where the extracted tracks were saved

14) Drag each of the wav files from the top-right pane to the bottom pane in the order you want them

15) When done, click the Burn button (in the bottom pane)

16) Select the desired burn speed (with Audio CDs I would recommend the slower the better)

17) Click Burn

18) Viola

Grant.