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  <artheader>
    <title>Linux MP3 CD Burning mini-HOWTO</title>
    <pubdate>2001-05-29</pubdate>
    <author>
      <firstname>Greg</firstname>
      <surname>Wierzchowski</surname>
      <affiliation>
        <address><email>greg@draxen.org</email></address>
      </affiliation>
    </author>
    <abstract>
       <para>A complete recipe for creating audio and data CDs from MP3 files.</para>
    </abstract>
    <revhistory>
      <revision>
         <revnumber>2.0</revnumber>
         <date>2002-04-26</date>
         <authorinitials>GW</authorinitials>
         <revremark>Divided into two sections: existing material to section "audio", new section "data" on data
	 CDs. Misc. additions.</revremark>
      </revision>
      <revision>
         <revnumber>1.5</revnumber>
         <date>2001-11-19</date>
         <authorinitials>GW</authorinitials>
         <revremark>Fixed omission in Disc-At-Once burning section.</revremark>
      </revision>
      <revision>
         <revnumber>1.4</revnumber>
         <date>2001-11-17</date>
         <authorinitials>GW</authorinitials>
         <revremark>Added Disc-At-Once burning section.</revremark>
      </revision>
      <revision>
         <revnumber>1.3</revnumber>
         <date>2001-09-02</date>
         <authorinitials>GW</authorinitials>
         <revremark>Added another example of decoding MP3 files with lame.</revremark>
      </revision>
      <revision>
         <revnumber>1.2</revnumber>
         <date>2001-07-12</date>
         <authorinitials>GW</authorinitials>
         <revremark>Minor layout changes; Added Translations subsection into Credits.</revremark>
      </revision>
      <revision>
         <revnumber>1.1</revnumber>
         <date>2001-06-12</date>
         <authorinitials>GW</authorinitials>
         <revremark>Minor cleanup; Regexp fix for MP3 to WAV name conversion example.</revremark>
      </revision>
       <revision>
         <revnumber>1.0</revnumber>
         <date>2001-05-29</date>
         <authorinitials>GW</authorinitials>
         <revremark>Initial Release.</revremark>
      </revision>
    </revhistory>
<keywordset>
 <keyword>
  MP3
 </keyword>
 <keyword>
  CD
 </keyword>
 <keyword>
  audio
 </keyword>
 <keyword>
  recording
 </keyword>
 <keyword>
  burning
 </keyword>
 <keyword>
  WAV
 </keyword>
 <keyword>
  music
 </keyword>
</keywordset>

  </artheader>


<section id="intro"><title>Introduction</title>

<para>
This mini-HOWTO was created because of my experience with burning music CDs
and lack of some specific information about sound normalization on the
Internet. I usually 