Burner Software reccommendations

[dsalmon9]

What front end programs have people been successful with as a data/audio cd burning software for use with a USB burner. I have loaded Gnometoast. It seems to handle data cd's fine. Tried an audio cd, got all the dependencies taken care of, installed cdrdao, and all of that. When I tried to burn an audio disc with it, it gets about 7% finished with the file and freezes. The time remaining clock stops, everything quits. I left it alone for a while came back and it was still at 7% so i had to kill the application. Now it won't start.

Anybody using a usb burner on RH7.2 successfully? What software do you suggest?

[Hayl]

The ones I use mainly are:

- cdrx.pl
- burn center
- rip

All three have project pages at sourceforge.

[mdwatts]

Here is one thread that I found with a JL Software forum search (titles only) for 'burner software' (http://justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=98615&highlight=burner+software).

I find that XCDRoast does everything I need. Burn iso's and create backups of files/directories etc.

[dsalmon9]

XCDRoast looks like the right software for me. I downloaded the RPM for my version. I had dependency issues (needed cdrtools stuff)....Downloaded them...they conflict with the current cdrtools.....It gave me an option to install anyway but I said no. Ought I uninstall the previous cdrtools version? If so how?

UPDATE

Tried to unistalled the aforementioned packages for reinstallation using GnoRPM. When I picked the package to be uninstalled and hit unistall, I get this error message:

"Application "gnorpm_auth" (process 1763) has crashed due to a fatal error. (Segmentation fault)"

Anyway for me to unistall differently?

[o0zi]

To uninstall it, use rpm with the -e switch, i.e.:

rpm -e whatever

See man rpm for details, although Red Hat 7.2 may have a GUI for the RPM Package Manager, never used it so I'm not sure.

It's really a matter of preference, but I use K3B instead of XCDRoast.

[dsalmon9]

The software titles I come across seem not to have the ability to take an mp3 (or a list of them), decode it/them, and burn it to an audio cd so I can play it in a regular cd player. Everything seems to say want me to have a wav file on my hdd. I dont have a hefty enough hard drive to store a bunch of wav files nor do I want to have to decode the files I want burn them then go back and get rid of them. Think easy cd Creator or Roxio in windows....

Im in the process of downloading Red Hat 9. I just installed 7.2 the other day, as my many post here the past few days have indicated, and I think it might be a good idea if I go ahead and grab the latest. The only reason I installed 7.2 in the first place is because I had the disc sitting in front of me ready to install. Gnometoaster looks like it might be able to handle what I want. After I finish upgrading to 9, I am going to give it a spin. Anyone had luck with Gnometoaster?

[Hayl]

Originally posted by dsalmon9
The software titles I come across seem not to have the ability to take an mp3 (or a list of them), decode it/them, and burn it to an audio cd so I can play it in a regular cd player. Everything seems to say want me to have a wav file on my hdd. I dont have a hefty enough hard drive to store a bunch of wav files nor do I want to have to decode the files I want burn them then go back and get rid of them. Think easy cd Creator or Roxio in windows....

Im in the process of downloading Red Hat 9. I just installed 7.2 the other day, as my many post here the past few days have indicated, and I think it might be a good idea if I go ahead and grab the latest. The only reason I installed 7.2 in the first place is because I had the disc sitting in front of me ready to install. Gnometoaster looks like it might be able to handle what I want. After I finish upgrading to 9, I am going to give it a spin. Anyone had luck with Gnometoaster?

use rip :) it's fast and easy
http://rip.sourceforge.net/

the following rip command will rip an entire CD to MP3s in ~/mp3.

rip -d /dev/cdroms/cdrom1 -STP -A -s 40 -m ~/mp3

i used to use gnome-toaster for ripping but i think it's slow.

[dsalmon9]

Thanks for the reccommend. I just downloaded the ISO image for the first disk of RH9. Went to burn it with xcdroast...I found the manual, Im sure I can get what I need out of it. Every time I try to burn a disk though my machine locks up completely. I cant do anything, move the mouse, nothin. a couple of the lights on my keyboard start flashing. I have to turn the machine of f and reboot it.

I guess I dont mind rippin' with another program. Can u select separate tracks with rip or do ya have to pull the whole disk? How bout I'll just check out the man page for the answer to that one, Im sure you can.

Though Im having lil problems here and there, Im certain I'll be stickin' with Linux.

Peace.

[SuperNu]

I used to use Arson (http://arson.sourceforge.net) (looks like the site is down and the Sourceforge search reports Arson as being Arson2, so there might be a newer version coming out), but it wouldn't compile on my RH9 system due to the newer version of autoconf. Now, I either use the command line for cd copying, or I use k3b (http://k3b.sourceforge.net) for just about everything else.

--SN