CD Burning Software

[Lamar Owen]

On Monday 02 February 2004 08:40 am, Harald Glatt wrote:
> I'd prefer something that doesn't depend on kde, do you know something
> for gnome?

While it's kindof old, and the interface isn't the greatest, I use gtoaster 
the largest part of the time personally.  It does something that most of the 
others don't seem to do: it automatically invokes sox to convert wav or other 
audio files to native CD audio on the fly during the burn.  I regularly 
record mono sources at 44.1ksps, and it is inconvenient to convert those over 
to stereo (not to mention the space it takes: we're talking full 74 minute 
audio files here) just to burn them.  The version of k3b I have installed 
(0.10.3, which may be for all I know an ancient version) does not seem to do 
this.  If the latest k3b does this, I'd love it, since I live predominately 
in KDE, not GNOME.  But gtoaster is a GNOME program and works quite well for 
what it does.

To get gtoaster to work without SCSI emulation isn't too difficult; I have it 
set up on my home machine to do it with ATAPI instead.  It involves, IIRC, 
prepending the ATAPI: to all the places where the device is referenced in the 
settings.  My laptop (which is what I'm on right now) is still using 
ide-scsi, so I haven't done the mods to it yet.
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Lamar Owen
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