I finally decided to look into some utils that did this, and the first one I found is "mp3burn".  It is unbelievable simple and perfect.

Just install the package and it gets all required libraries to convert and then burn's on the fly.  And you won't believe how simple it is.

I just want to a directory that had the MP3's I wanted to burn to an audio CD and typed "mp3burn *"

As you can see below, it detected my DVD burner and did the rest, it couldn't have been quicker or simpler.  This is one amazing utility that impressed me.  The author really thought things out here.

~/newsongs$ mp3burn *
wodim: No write mode specified.
wodim: Asuming -tao mode.
wodim: Future versions of wodim may have different drive dependent defaults.
wodim: Operation not permitted. Warning: Cannot raise RLIMIT_MEMLOCK limits.Device was not specified. Trying to find an appropriate drive...
Detected CD-R drive: /dev/cdrw
Using /dev/cdrom of unknown capabilities
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 0
Response Format: 2
Capabilities   :
Vendor_info    : 'TSSTcorp'
Identification : 'CDDVDW SH-S223F '
Revision       : 'SB02'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc   CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags   : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R
Speed set to 8468 KB/s
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed  48.0 in real TAO mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write in    0 seconds. Operation starts.

WARNING: padding up to secsize.
Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 38979072/38979696 (16573 sectors).

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Track 02: Total bytes read/written: 42149376/42150192 (17921 sectors).

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Track 03: Total bytes read/written: 31237632/31239264 (13282 sectors).

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Track 04: Total bytes read/written: 41107968/41108256 (17478 sectors).

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Track 05: Total bytes read/written: 58945536/58945824 (25062 sectors).

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Track 06: Total bytes read/written: 42398208/42399504 (18027 sectors).

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Track 07: Total bytes read/written: 47660544/47660928 (20264 sectors).

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Track 08: Total bytes read/written: 38827008/38829168 (16509 sectors).

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Track 09: Total bytes read/written: 44587008/44589216 (18958 sectors).

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Track 10: Total bytes read/written: 48628224/48629952 (20676 sectors).

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Track 11: Total bytes read/written: 47983104/47983152 (20401 sectors).

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Track 12: Total bytes read/written: 38544384/38544576 (16388 sectors).

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Track 13: Total bytes read/written: 39421440/39421872 (16761 sectors).

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Track 14: Total bytes read/written: 38181888/38182368 (16234 sectors).

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Track 15: Total bytes read/written: 46476288/46477872 (19761 sectors).

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Track 16: Total bytes read/written: 39241728/39243120 (16685 sectors).

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Track 17: Total bytes read/written: 48815616/48815760 (20755 sectors).
cleaning up children: 9097 9101 9105 9109 9113 9117 9121 9125 9129 9133 9137 9141 9145 9149 9153 9157 9161