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snack

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From: Italy

Registered: 2009-01-13

Posts: 895

Music manager with burn-playlist feature

I used Amarok to manage my music collection, and a great third-party Amarok script to burn my playlist on a data CD as MP3 files with K3B; the script did a wonderful job renaming the files on the CD in order to preserve the order of the playlist (e.g. song.mp3 -> 001_song.mp3). I fought hard to keep Amarok working on my machine because of this feature which I didn't find in any other player, but now I have to give up since the script does not work with the (incomplete) Amarok port to KF5 available rom AUR. Is there any other music manager that can burn a playlist to a CD? Thanks.

qinohe

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2012-06-20

Posts: 1,599

Re: Music manager with burn-playlist feature

Hi, not that I have ever tried it but I know for sure VLC can do what you want. You may even be able to use a custom script, again, never tried it.

snack

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From: Italy

Registered: 2009-01-13

Posts: 895

Re: Music manager with burn-playlist feature

I played a bit with VLC, but if I'm correct then it just plays music (in other words, it doesn't keep a music collection with songs sorted by author, genre, album etc.) and the burning feature converts a playlist to an audio CD (while what I'd like is to burn the MP3 files into a data cd). Did I miss something?

sevendogs

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From: Texas

Registered: 2016-01-24

Posts: 220

Re: Music manager with burn-playlist feature

Pretty sure rhythymbox has this capability. I believe it would require brasero for burning though, plus other gnome deps.

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qinohe

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2012-06-20

Posts: 1,599

Re: Music manager with burn-playlist feature

I played a bit with VLC, but if I'm correct then it just plays music (in other words, it doesn't keep a music collection with songs sorted by author, genre, album etc.) and the burning feature converts a playlist to an audio CD (while what I'd like is to burn the MP3 files into a data cd). Did I miss something?

Oops missed that one, no you didn't miss anything, it does burn an audio CD..

snack

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From: Italy

Registered: 2009-01-13

Posts: 895

Re: Music manager with burn-playlist feature

I tried also rhythmbox but as far as I understood it just supports burning an audio CD with brasero, not a data CD.

snack

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From: Italy

Registered: 2009-01-13

Posts: 895

Re: Music manager with burn-playlist feature

In the end I've gone the hard way and fixed Amarok. I've been able to restore the scripting capabilities (amarok-scripting) that were removed from the KF5 port and now the script that burns the playlist using K3B works again.