How do I make one large MP3 of whole

Question

Hi
I want to concatenate all 0 tracks of my audio CD and create a single MP3 file
with ID3v tags. I can do this easily with iTunes, except for that it produces only
ID3v2 tags. I have had a look on the Creative software (Media Creator?) but that
doesn't seem to support this facility, or does it's Can anyone help out here?
I usually use lame but that is just mp3 encoding; I need to concatenate the wav files
into one big wav file first, I believe.
Finally, I am looking only for [legal] freeware or shareware, be it for Windows or Linux,
to do this.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Hi
Thanks to all of your for your help - I will be trying them all out at some point.
I also found this web page:
http://www.boutell.com/scripts/catwav.html
It has a quick script on it for concatenating wav files using sox - I found it handy
and I knocked up a quick script of my own which I used for my one CD that I needed to
do urgently. It works but is a bit crude. I'll paste it here in case anyone is at all
intereste:
#!/bin/sh
i=0;
for wavfile in *.wav; do
i=$(($i+))
echo "Converting wav file $wavfile to raw format($i)"
sox $wavfile -r 4400 -c 2 -s -w /tmp/$i.cat.raw
done;
echo "Found $i wav files to concatenate."
touch /tmp/partial.cat.raw
x=0;
while [ $x -ne $i ]; do
x=$(($x+))
echo "Adding raw version of wav file - no. $x"
cat /tmp/partial.cat.raw /tmp/$x.cat.raw > /tmp/all.cat.raw
mv /tmp/all.cat.raw /tmp/partial.cat.raw
done;
mv /tmp/partial.cat.raw /tmp/all.cat.raw
echo "Finally, using sox to create final wav file from raw file"
sox -r 4400 -c 2 -s -w /tmp/all.cat.raw /tmp/all.cat.wav
#rm /tmp/*.cat.raw /tmp/all.cat.raw
Thanks again.