what cd burning software?

Mustard007 · Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2002 8:44 pm Post subject:

ARSON is a good burning software too that support Normalizing your audio files before burning ! Good looking and is for KDE3 !!

Available at your local emerge !

rizzo · Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2002 5:10 pm Post subject:

rizzo · Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2002 5:17 pm Post subject:

cdbakeoven looks nice but doesn't support ogg. At least these were the results on my install that I just did. I do have oggvorbis in my USE flag, so I'm assuming that cdbakeoven just doesn't support it.

Kawada · Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2002 9:03 pm Post subject:

I find that using gcombust in combination with ROX-Filer works really well. gcombust supports the drag and drop from rox nicely, so file selection is much easier. And gcombust seems to give easy access to all the options from mkisofs and cdrecord, so no complaints there.
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Jowilly · Guru Joined: 22 Jun 2002 Posts: 319

K3b is the only one I have found able to load .cue files and burning raw .bin images. -> Nero for Linux.

K3b will also rip DVDs...

dr_strange · Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2002 8:19 pm Post subject:

Could somebody please help me how a Nero .nrg image can be written or converted under linux?

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Jowilly · Guru Joined: 22 Jun 2002 Posts: 319

Nero .nrg files are supported by K3b. Just run k3b -> write iso image, select your .nrg file in the file dialog, and burn it...

Jowilly · Guru Joined: 22 Jun 2002 Posts: 319

And yes, .nrg is an iso, you can mount it on linux as a normal cdrom, like this:

dr_strange · Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 7:10 pm Post subject:

thank you both!!

DesertFox · n00b Joined: 14 Nov 2002 Posts: 53

rommel, don't know if you figured this out yet, but xine is

emerge xine-ui

actually, xine is

emerge xine-lib

but xine-ui is the gui for it, which you will probably want.

and i believe that its dependents include the xine-dvd-nav, dvd-nav, dvd-read, and dvd-css,

which should make it so you can watch just about any dvd

Delphiki · Guru Joined: 04 Oct 2002 Posts: 337 Location: A2

Delphiki · Guru Joined: 04 Oct 2002 Posts: 337 Location: A2

I believe in addition to emerging xine you need to make sure the UDF file system is enabled in the kernel or as a module and emerge xine-dvdnav (I'm about 99% certain that it isn't a dependency of xine-ui and I can't get the dvd plugin that is installed with xine to work).
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lx · Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2002 11:37 am Post subject:

If you want the best audiocd program out there you should obt for Feurio shareware and Wine, it works great if you have a cdr / cdrom that supports C2-error correction (I have a plextor), this way you can read the CD at high speed one time, and still have an indication if everything is read correct (I know readcd can do c2error but it puts everything in the image, so you need to get rid of the extra info to get a raw pcm file). Well anyway readcd doesn't work anymore (not yet) with kernel 2.5.50.

Well anyway if somebody stumbles on a program / way to extract tracks using c2 correction (and get playable wavs), arrange them, maybe some cddb functionality and burning them, plz dumb it in this threat, although I like feurio, I would love a linux solution for it, ;-)

Cya lX.
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Reformist · Guru Joined: 06 Oct 2002 Posts: 323

Well, here's my two cents, and I'm fairly enthusiastic about them so my opinion might be worth something to someone.

I've never had much luck with cd burning in linux (about 8 months now), which includes Mandrake, Red hat and Gentoo. I know the newest Mandrake/RH stuff is supposed to be great, but i"m a gentoo freak now. I've found that cd burning in linux (for files etc.) can be done pretty easily with the standard command line tools cdrecord, cdrdao and mkisofs. I believe every single GUI application uses these tools, so you can either use the GUI or use them by hand, it depends if you wish to cut out the middle man or need the GUI's guidance.

That being said, I'm also a gnome freak, and was really looking for a CD burning solution to what I've been used to in windows. I used Nero in windows, which is pretty good, but it had its bugs and was _not free_. I've tried every GUI program except for arson, and my first, best, greatest choice is gtoaster, for gnome! If you're running gnome, give this program a try. It's defaults detected everything for my system, and seriously all I had to do was drag a file (or select it via file tree) and click burn. What?? Yeah, I've never experienced that kind of easiness with a complicated issue like CD burning in linux. So, this program has made a lasting impression on me, and I'm am _thoroughly_ impressed.

As a plus, the program lets you see exactly what it will be running (piping the GUI's input to the tools mkisofs, cdrecord, etc, suprise suprise) and you can edit the commands directly if you care to do so. Also, the program detects and converts mp3 files (and ogg files? not sure) to audio tracks via a preference in the preferences, turned on by default, so the default behavior is for one to drag an mp3 file onto the CD's file list and converting it to wav and showing you track time, etc. This is a one step mp3->CD program that windows users expect when coming to linux, and before now, I hadn't found it.

As for the other programs, sure, give them a try, but IHMO, they all suck, hard, especially XCDRoast, and the others too (but especially XCDRoast). I've heard great things about Arson, but unfortunately I'm not a KDE user and don't want the libs etc (the program has a big pre-req). I've seen screen shots and they look amazing, so for the KDE camp, try arson. I am so vehemently against XCDRoast because it is mentioned as a viable GUI cd burning program for the desktop and newbies alike, which it is not. The GUI is terrible and unintuitive, and the way things are accomplished makes no sense. It functions, yes, but I wouldn't say it fills the gap of a desktop cd burning program. Gnome/X users, try gtoaster!

On a side note, there is a nice perl script in portage, called cdrx.pl, that handles burning isos to a cd via command line. It's a little more easy than mkisofs commands etc., and is menu driver and user friendly. I used this before I started sampling every GUI out there.
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dweebs0r · Apprentice Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 177

Just wanted to chime in that Arson is a very nice and complete CD burning program. I only saw it mentioned briefly in the other responses.
Enjoy!

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timmy · n00b Joined: 24 May 2002 Posts: 56 Location: Bath, UK

This is probably a stupid question, but...

How do I write a CD in mode2?

I've tried both K3B and simplecdrx, and neither seems to have the CD Mode as an option.

cdrecord has a track option of -mode2, if I create an iso, can I use cdrecord to burn it in mode2?

Is there a way of selecting the mode from K3B?

Tim

maxmc · Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2003 10:24 pm Post subject:

I tried to burn an image with Arson but I only get "Unknown iso format" when I select Burn CD from Image in the menu...

then I press ok and nothing happens.. I didn't even get to select the file... compiling K3b as I write this.. hope it'll last...

Ian Tindale · n00b Joined: 13 Dec 2002 Posts: 16 Location: London

$ cdrecord dev=0,0,0 (or your CDR SCSI device number) -v [iso_name]

that's it

if you want to read the cd on window$ 9x/NT, add the -J option to mkisofs[/quote]

But this thread is about using ATAPI - this doesn't seem to be ATAPI related because a] I've just tried that and it doesn't work, and b] you specifically mention SCSI.

Reformist · Guru Joined: 06 Oct 2002 Posts: 323

It would appear ATAPI-supporting GUI-cd-burning programs are few and far between at the moment... very upsetting, because ATAPI solves the age-old problem of how horrifying "set up SCSI emulation for your cdroms" sounds to a new user. I would have thought every GUI program would be on the bandwagon... ahh well...
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Ian Tindale · n00b Joined: 13 Dec 2002 Posts: 16 Location: London

I want to know how to use cdrdao to burn bin/cue using ATAPI:/dev/hdb[b][/b][b][/b]
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crimson · Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2003 7:14 am Post subject:

afaik cdrecord is the only linux program that will burn using ATAPI. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Also, I'm curious to know if any of the GUI programs *besides XCDRoast support cdrecord's dev=ATAPI feature? All of the ones I've tried didn't recognize any drives. But it's possible since XCDRoast does work.

barlad · l33t Joined: 22 Feb 2003 Posts: 673

Can k3b burn DVD+RW ? If not, anyone would have such a software to recommend ?

tucolino · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Jun 2003 Posts: 90

billium · Apprentice Joined: 22 Mar 2003 Posts: 185

I would like to give my vote to burncenter, it is a console app that is easily run from remote. .. many thanks to the author.

Billy