Writing audio CDs from MP3s

[Dizzybacon]

I've written a small script to decode mp3s from a m3u file and then write them to CD, but I the CDs come out double speed!

I keep all my mp3s encoded at 56k because I want small file sizes and this seems to be part of my problem.

Decoding with notlame -t --decode "blah.mp3" "blah.wav" I cannot play the wav through xmms but with out the -t I can, and they play fine. Without the -t though I can't write it to CD.

As an experiment I tried ripping some mp3s at 128k and then writing them to CD and it worked fine with all the same commands.

Has anyone got any ideas, I'm really stuck!

[Dizzybacon]

I've now tried using E-Roaster and had the same result. 56kbps MP3s end up at double speed, 128kbps MP3s are fine, but if I convert a 56kbps MP3 to 128kbps and burn it it still comes out at double speed.

However when I first started trying E-Roaster it couldn't burn anything on my CD writer, and I only got around this by turning off the 'Track at once' option.

Using CDRecord I had to use '-raw16' to get it to work. I think these are related and may be the cause.

Could my writer be too old?

Dizzy