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   Paul to Chris   
   Re: trying to burn MP3 to CD   
   25 Mar 24 22:22:53   
   
   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On 3/25/2024 6:53 PM, Chris wrote:   
   > Al Jostens  wrote:   
   >> Ok, I had not burned a CD in over a decade so forgot about the   
   >> "standards."  I was trying to burn the MP3 to CD using audio standards,   
   >> which was not going to work since it was hours long.  After I began   
   >> using the "data" option, no longer any oversize issues except I had to   
   >> go though about 5 CDs before there was a correct burn.  I had some cheap   
   >> Verbatim ones here, but none of those burned correctly.  It took an old   
   >> Maxwell with max of 4x speed to get successful results.  It's not that   
   >> my burner couldn't handle the faster speeds, but I think a lot of these   
   >> old CDs in storage for many years were bad.   
   >>   
   >> The purpose was to create a 9 hour "white noise" CD for my wife, who   
   >> uses the noise when I am away to help her sleep.  We had a white noise   
   >> generator, but it became defunct so I came up with the idea of a CD to   
   >> be used in the room's portable stereo.   
   >   
   > Would an analogue radio not tuned to a station work?   
      
   Why would you even need a source ?   
      
   Write code to generate the noise :-)   
      
   https://stackoverflow.com/questions/616897/how-can-i-make-a-pink   
   noise-generator   
      
      # 3 second sample, not my taste in music   
      
      play -t sl - synth 3 pinknoise band -n 1200 200 tremolo .1 40 < /dev/zero   
      
     Paul   
      
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