I realize there may be better command-line utilities to accomplish my methods, but these methods have worked well for me over the years. I just think it's very cool that I was able to use Perl to automate the entire process.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#
# burncd.pl -   gets album name from command line
#               pulls songs from mp3 database
#               copies songs to /music/wavs/
#               renames songs to 01.mp3, 02.mp3, etc. format
#               calls mpg123 to convert mp3 to wav
#               calls sox to convert wav to cdr
#               calls cdrecord to burn CD-R
#               cleans up the /music/wavs/ directory
use strict;
use vars qw/$DBI/;
use DBI;
use Getopt::Long;
use File::Basename;
 
my $startTime   = `date`;
my $DSN         = "DBI:mysql:mp3";
my $host        = "localhost";
my $user        = "userid";
my $passwd      = "seekrit";
my $WavDir      = "/music/wavs";
my ($ALBUM, $ARTIST);
 
GetOptions("album=s" => \$ALBUM,
           "artist=s"=> \$ARTIST);
 
# connect to database
my $dbh = DBI->connect($DSN, $user, $passwd);
die "Cannot connect: $DBI:errstr\n" if (!($dbh));
my $drh = DBI->install_driver("mysql");
 
# $ALBUM is required input
if (!($ALBUM)) {
    print "correct usage is: burncd <options>\n";
    print "where options equal:\n";
    print "-album=\"album name\"\n";
    print "-artist=\"artist name\"\n";
    print "\n";
    print "-artist is only necessary if there are two\n";
    print "or more albums of the same name (i.e.,Greatest Hits)\n";
    exit;
}
 
my $SQLText = "SELECT location FROM song, album
               WHERE fk_album_id = album.id
               AND album = \"$ALBUM\"
               ORDER BY location";
 
if ($ARTIST) {
    $SQLText = "SELECT location FROM song, album, artist
                WHERE fk_artist_id = artist.id
                AND fk_album_id = album.id
                AND album = \"$ALBUM\"
                AND performer = \"$ARTIST\"
                ORDER BY location";
}
 
# this is what we're executing
print "SQL: $SQLText\n";
 
my $sth    = $dbh->prepare($SQLText);
my $query  = $sth->execute;
my $FilesFound = "0";
my @list;
 
# copy files from $Loc to $WavDir
while (my $ref = $sth->fetchrow_hashref()) {
        $FilesFound = '1';
        last if (!($FilesFound));
 
        my $Loc = $ref->{'location'};
        print "copying $Loc to $WavDir\n";
        my @args = ("cp", "$Loc", "$WavDir");
        system(@args) == 0 or die "system @args failed: $?";
        my ($filename,$pathname,$suffixname) = 
           fileparse($Loc,"\.[^.]*");
        $filename = $filename . $suffixname;
        push @list, $filename;
}
 
if (!($FilesFound)) {
        print "No entries found for $ALBUM $ARTIST\n";
        exit;
}
 
# set working dir to $WavDir
chdir($WavDir);
 
# rename files to 01.mp3, 02.mp3, etc.
my @mp3list = 
   process_files("mv", undef, "renaming", "\.mp3", @list);
 
# call mpg123 to convert .mp3 to .wav
my @wavlist = 
   process_files("mpg123", "-qw", "converting", "\.wav", @mp3list);
 
# call sox to convert each .wav to .cdr
my @cdrlist = 
   process_files("sox", undef, "converting", "\.cdr", @wavlist);
 
# call cdrecord on *.cdr
my @args = ("cdrecord -v dev=0,4,0 -audio *.cdr");
system(@args) == 0 or die "system @args failed: $?";
 
# clean up
print "cleaning up $WavDir\n";
unlink @list;
unlink @mp3list;
unlink @wavlist;
unlink @cdrlist;
 
# done
print "processing for $ALBUM complete\n";
 
my $endTime = `date`;
print "start time: $startTime\n";
print "end time  : $endTime\n";
exit;

sub process_files {
    my ($function, $parm, $message, $extension, @list) = @_;
    my @returnlist;
    my @args;
 
    foreach my $file (@list) {
        my $Newfile = substr($file, 0, 2);
        $Newfile = $Newfile . $extension;
        print "($function) $message $file to $Newfile\n";
        if ($function =~ /mpg123/) {
                @args = ("$function", "$parm", "$Newfile", "$file");
        }
        else {
                @args = ("$function", "$file", "$Newfile");
        }
        system(@args) == 0 or die "system @args failed: $?";
        push @returnlist, $Newfile;
    }
    return(@returnlist);
}
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Update: Correct $FilesFound flag per dws's comment No. 1.

If things get any worse, I'll have to ask you to stop helping me.