CD burning 30 August 2004 create device nodes correctly see if k3b runs without crashing figure out how to burn mp3 files for a music CD Burning a CD from mp3 files You can likely do this using k3b, or even xcdroast -- I haven't tried. Command-line method (source) If any filenames contain spaces, first convert them to underscores: for i in *.mp3; do mv "$i" `echo $i | tr ' ' '_'`; done If your MP3 files came from DOS/Windows, they may have uppercase extensions -- you can convert whole names to lowercase or just extensions For everything lowercase do: for i in *.[Mm][Pp]3; do mv "$i" `echo $i | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`; done to convert just extensions: for i in *.MP3; do mv "$i" "`basename "$i" .MP3`.mp3"; done    Convert mp3 to wav (is this really necessary?) using lame or madplay: for i in *.mp3; do lame --decode $i `basename $i .mp3`.wav; done for i in *.mp3; do madplay -o `basename $i .mp3`.wav $i; done Make sure the files are 16 bit, stereo 44100 Hz: file *.wav To convert when necessary, use sox: sox track01.wav -r 44100 track01-new.wav resample or, if the above introduces static when converting mono files: sox track01.wav -r 44100 -c 2 track01-new.wav<> Normalize the sound:  normalize -m *.wav Optionally, convert WAV files with sox into CDR format before burning: sox file.wav file.cdr Use k3b or xcdroast to make the iso image and burn