cannot burn playlists as data only as audio CD

[tuddy24]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

summary explains it

hardy heron 32bit
rythmbox 0.11.5

expected to burn playlist as data but could only choose audio cd. I'm 99% done with Window$ but this is one thing holding me up. Please Help!

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Sep 14 23:06:04 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: rhythmbox 0.11.5-0ubuntu8 [modified: usr/lib/rhythmbox/rhythmbox-metadata usr/lib/librhythmbox-core.so.0.0.0 usr/bin/rhythmbox usr/bin/rhythmbox-client]
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

[Parthan SR (parth-technofreak)]

Thank you for taking your time to file this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Can you state why you want to burn the playlist as a data file?

 Rhythmbox has a feature to create Audio CDs from a playlist, but the playlist by itself is not written into the Audio CD. There are few upstream bugs about including the songs in the CD as a metadata (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378097) but none is reported on storing the playlist itself. If am not wrong, the playlist is available as XML file in ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/.

Am not sure whether this is a bug, as this feature doesn't exist in upstream as well and no bug filed on it. May be added as a wishlist in the upstream itself?

[tuddy24 (tuddy24)]

I'm sorry if I was not clear about what I was trying to do. In iTunes under Windows, you can burn a playlist of songs as their original file formats, aac, mp3, flac, wav or whatever without converting to CD audio playable files if for example you want to archive music on a cd or DVD. If I have 650mb of let's say 100 mp3's, I'm looking to add these files as is from the playlist to a cd. Does this help? Thanks.

> From: <email address hidden>
> To: <email address hidden>
> Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 04:35:41 +0000
> Subject: [Bug 270356] Re: cannot burn playlists as data - only audio, not sure if bug
>
> Thank you for taking your time to file this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. Can you state why you want to burn the playlist as a data
> file?
>
> Rhythmbox has a feature to create Audio CDs from a playlist, but the
> playlist by itself is not written into the Audio CD. There are few
> upstream bugs about including the songs in the CD as a metadata
> (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378097) but none is reported
> on storing the playlist itself. If am not wrong, the playlist is
> available as XML file in ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/.
>
> Am not sure whether this is a bug, as this feature doesn't exist in
> upstream as well and no bug filed on it. May be added as a wishlist in
> the upstream itself?
>
> ** Changed in: rhythmbox (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> cannot burn playlists as data - only audio, not sure if bug
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/270356
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “rhythmbox” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: rhythmbox
>
> summary explains it
>
> hardy heron 32bit
> rythmbox 0.11.5
>
> expected to burn playlist as data but could only choose audio cd. I'm 99% done with Window$ but this is one thing holding me up. Please Help!
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Sun Sep 14 23:06:04 2008
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: rhythmbox 0.11.5-0ubuntu8 [modified: usr/lib/rhythmbox/rhythmbox-metadata usr/lib/librhythmbox-core.so.0.0.0 usr/bin/rhythmbox usr/bin/rhythmbox-client]
> PackageArchitecture: i386
> ProcEnviron:
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: rhythmbox
> Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

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[Parthan SR (parth-technofreak)]

Shouldn't this be marked as a wishlist as the feature is requested to be made available in rhythmbox?

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

This should be forwarded upstream; its a reasonable feature request as far as I can tell

[Greg Grossmeier (greg.grossmeier)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144973

[Nikhil Wason (nikhilwason)]

An easy workaround till Rhythmbox gets that functionality:

1. Select all the files in the playlist you want to burn (using Ctrl+A inside Rhythmbox).
2. Create a new data CD/DVD project in Brasero Disc Burner (found in applications > sound & video).
3. Drag and drop the selected files from Rhythmbox into the Brasero project.
4. Choose a suitable name for the CD.
5. Click on Burn.

All Done! :)

[Giannis Rizos (grizos)]

This Nikhil mentioned works but I can't maintain the order of the songs in the playlist and that is bad. I hope that rhythmbox developers will finally support this feature. It's very very very useful.