[NTLUG:Discuss] CD Recording

[MadHat]

On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 12:32, Kelledin wrote:
> On Saturday 27 September 2003 12:13 pm, Peter A. Koren wrote:
> > I have been burning CDs under windows and finally decided to
> > do it under Linux. I noticed that my KDE archiving menu --
> > under Mandrake 9.1 -- has some software choices. The choices
> > are GCombust, K3b and Gnome-Toaster. I burn both Audio CDs and
> > data CDs for backup. I would not mind having other
> > capabilities that are available.
> >
> > Can anyone make recommendations?
> 
> I tend to prefer XCDRoast (http://www.xcdroast.org/).  It may 
> have an "alpha" tag, but it's really very stable.  I'd be 
> surprised as hell if Manrake didn't have it on one of its CDs...

Ya know, I recently installed this and a few dozen other CD tools and I
have found that they suck.  xcdroast is not intuitive and I have not
been able to get it to work at all for creating data disks.  k3b is
almost as bad, and cluttered with graphics.  I also installed a couple
of other GUIs, all with the same shortcomings.  So far using the command
line seems to work best, especially for ISOs.  I have Roxio's EZ CD
Creator and HP's Record Now, bith of which work well, but I  have yet to
find anything that works for a GUI burner in Linux.  

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