CD Burning Software

[James Drabb]

On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 12:16, Colin Charles wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 14:10, James Drabb wrote:
> 
> > The problems with these two apps are that the UI is outdated, does not
> > fit in well with Gnome 2.x and they are not very user-friendly.  I
> > switched my brother-in-law (non-tech savvy) to FC1 and Gnome.  He puked
> > at how horrible XCdroast and gcombust are.  He really like k3b, even
> > more then Nero.  The problem with him using a KDE app is that his laptop
> > is older and only has 10GB.  He is a photographer and needs all the
> > space he can get for images instead of wasting it on KDE libs.  IMO, the
> > only thing that Gnome 2.x lacks as a complete desktop is a CD burning
> > app.
> 
> If you're running GNOME 2.4 (as all FC1 users should be), by inserting a
> blank CD into your CDRW drive, Nautilus (the gnome "file
> manager/browser") will pop-up a window with the Location being burn:///
> 
> Your brother-in-law can then drag&drop his files to this window, then
> click File -> Write CD.
> 
> Dead easy to burn photos to CDs, no need for anything external.

This is what I use to quickly write a CD.  The problem with the built-in
nautilus burner is that to the best of my knowledge, it does not support
creating a CD on-the-fly.  It creates a temporary ISO.  My
brother-in-law has an older laptop with only 10GB and at times does not
have enough space to create the temporary ISO.

Also, do you know if nautilus's burner supports creating audio CDs?  Can
he drop MP3/OGG file in there and have them converted to wave to make an
audio CD?

Jim Drabb
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James Drabb JR
Senior Programmer Analyst
Davenport, FL USA