Error creating audio CD with K3B with MP3 files
Posted December 27th, 2007 in Applications
The KDE CD and DVD burning application K3B allows you to create audio CDs by simply dragging and dropping MP3 and OGG Vorbis files and then clicking the "Burn" button. Conversion of the MP3 and OGG files are done automatically for you without having to do anything else, and the audio CD is created which can be played in a regular CD player.
If you get the error message "Problems while adding files to the project." and then "Unable to handle the following files due to an unsupported format: You may manually convert these audio files to wave using another application supporting the audio format and then add the wave files to the K3b project" when attempting to create an audio CD from MP3 files with K3B, then MP3 support has not been included in K3B and you need to add it.
The screenshots below show this error message:
The second screenshot below shows the same dialogue window after clicking the "Details" button. You can return to the above view after clicking the "Details" button again.
On Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu and other derivitives, you can install MP3 support for K3B by issuing the following command in a terminal window:
sudo apt-get install libk3b2-mp3
Once you've done that, restart K3B and it should work fine. You should also be able to install the above library using Adept or Synaptic by searching for libk3b2-mp3.
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