[NTLUG:Discuss] CD Recording

[Peter A. Koren]

On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 00:02, MadHat wrote:
> 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.
>  
Since Mandrake 9.1 came with K3b already installed, I just tried that.
It took a little while to figure out how to use it for backing up data,
but by trial and error I got there pretty quickly. My first Linux disk
burning session was a success backing up my programming directory --
including several books worth of documentation -- on a CD.

I uncluttered the main window by configuring the appropriate toolbar to
not be displayed for this "Data" type project -- I zapped the Audio part
of the window. Projects of various types can be saved with their setup,
so it is easy to start new projects of the same type with the same
settings.

-- Pete Koren
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