Ubuntu – how to burn music to CD using .cue and .flac files

Rant:

I would suggest you convert FLAC files to MP3 instead making AudioCD. Why?

1. You can't possibly notice difference between lame -V 5 (or even lower) and original source listening in a car
2. You'll save yourself time in the process and save $ on plastic, as space needed would be ~10 times reduced this way, plus you wont need to browse for CDs to find single album ;)

Procedure:

1. Convert FLACs to MP3 with lame (lame recommends -V2, but in your case I'd go with -V5):

   flac -d -c track.flac | lame -V 5 - track.mp3

   example for processing all FLAC files in current folder:

   for f in *.flac ; do flac -d -c "$f" | lame -V 5 - "${f%.*}.mp3" ; done

2. Convert MP3 folder structure to Joliet folder structure ISO image
   After you have converted FLAC files to MP3 arange MP3s in folder structure (i.e. /artist/album/track) than make ISO image like this:

   mkisofs -J -o /tmp/MP3-CD.iso /path to root of MP3 folder structure/

   Note: you can't go above 700MB, check for space first

3. Burn ISO image

   wodim dev=/dev/sg1 -dao speed=8 -eject /tmp/MP3-CD.iso

   Note: Use wodim --devices to check for your device. dev=/dev/sg1 is valid for my system

Voila

First, test your laptop's cd/drive. Insert some running(new is better) disk(cd and dvd) and ensure that it can read/run each disk successfully.

Second, Check disk speed in brasero/k3b before burn the disk. Set disk speed(Dvd : 8X and cd/mp3: 24X). Do not multi-task during burning. That means leave your laptop alone during burning process running.

Edited Version:

I tried Brasero and k3b, both without success

What is the error message that brasero or k3b shows?

Again about burning process, after burn dvd brasero automatically eject the drive or shows a warning "Eject the cd drive manually". So if it will not automatically eject then just eject manually.(it is not a major task but should done).

If you can open your written dvd(i know data is not readable) then provide the output:

ls -l /media/cdrom0

What kind of output shows if you do this:

cp -a /media/cdrom0/anyfile anyfile