CD Burning equivalent

[Mow]

First off let me say that I am a n00b.........that said, I was wondering if there was a equivalent to CD backup software such as Alcohol 120% or Clone CD.

I'm looking to abandon widoze but need something that will perform as well or better than those I lsted.

this is on a RH 8 system.

[JayMan8081]

X CD Roast is a graphical burning software that lets you master your own tracks or ISOs. It also lets you burn ISO images that you have downloaded. Might give that a try.

[Mow]

Fantastic.......is this "built in" to RH or is it a package I need to download? (I said I was a n00b)

[Raoul_Duke]

Xcdroast is included in RH8, if it ain't installed just grab it off your installation cd's :)

[Mow]

Okay thanks!

[Icarus]

Red Hat 8.0 install 'gnome toaster' by default, you can find XCDRoast packages to install also.

There are many others too, I've found eroaster to have the cleanest interface.

[Raoul_Duke]

If you use KDE, i've found 'K3B' to be a killer burner ;)

[hlrguy]

Originally posted by mahdi
There are many others too, I've found eroaster to have the cleanest interface.

I like eroaster too, however, it cannot be made to work in Redhat 8.0. I spend a few hours on
this frustration.

http://eclipt.uni-klu.ac.at/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=9

I found and like k3b. It is easier than Nero, which is what my wife was used to.

hlrguy

[Icarus]

Originally posted by hlrguy
I like eroaster too, however, it cannot be made to work in Redhat 8.0. I spend a few hours on
this frustration.

http://eclipt.uni-klu.ac.at/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=9

I found and like k3b. It is easier than Nero, which is what my wife was used to.

hlrguy Hmmm...I haven't tried eroaster on RH8 yet, too many problems with the burner it's self (just replaced it the other day and it works better now)

I've been looking into k3b, even though it is a KDE app and I use Gnome, I'll have to check it out. I already have the KDE base installed so it shouldn't hurt me too much :)

[Raoul_Duke]

Trust me, K3B is veeeery nice.........i've been using it about a week now and it's done data, music and ISO's at top speed with no trouble......excellent GUI too :)

[Icarus]

Originally posted by hlrguy
I like eroaster too, however, it cannot be made to work in Redhat 8.0. I spend a few hours on
this frustration.

http://eclipt.uni-klu.ac.at/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=9

I found and like k3b. It is easier than Nero, which is what my wife was used to.

hlrguy Update, if you check out their site, they mention why this didn't work.
http://eclipt.uni-klu.ac.at/index.php
Red Hat 8 does not use pygtk2 and the original work was done on pygtk.

If you use the 2.2+ release it works with Red Hat 8.0 from the tarball development release...I burned a CD this morning with it, and the interface is even slicker then before :)

[hlrguy]

Originally posted by mahdi
If you use the 2.2+ release it works with Red Hat 8.0 from the tarball development release...I burned a CD this morning with it, and the interface is even slicker then before :)

Awesome...I am off to compile. I miss it. :)

hlrguy

[redcape]

Use 'cdrecord'.

If you want to become really productive, you must stop faffing around using GUI applications as crutches. Web browsing is best with a GUI. Drawing requires a GUI. CD burning does not require a GUI and using one will only slow you down. The problem is that GUI applications trick you into thinking they are 'easy to use' by not requiring you to read any documentation. The truth is that 30 minutes reading the documentation for a 'difficult to use' commandline program will save you hours and hours of lost productivity.

There is an entire OS designed around the principal of wasting time using a GUI. Its name is Windows. I don't want to see Linux go the same way.

[Icarus]

Boy, that realy is a big slam against the "Linux Desktop Movement"...you still think Linux only belongs on the servers also? :rolleyes:

Yes, cdrecord is easy to use, but when you are putting over 600 mp3's on a disk in a total random manner (on the fly without know what you have), a GUI makes it a bit easier to locate the files and insert it into a list. Sure I could make a 600+ line file for cdrecord to read the files from, but making this list is a bit more difficult if I have to type out every file name I want and have to know the exact name for it to work.

I use the CLi when making disks from ISOs, as all that is already done and orginized. It is a single, short line that is needed to make the disk.

cdrecord --dev=0,0,0 name.iso

That is much easier then opening up a program to do it for you.
But with things like making an audio CD from mp3's or ogg's you need to rip the mp3/ogg into a .wav file (up to 16 times, once for each track) then

cdrecord -v speed=X dev=0,0 -pad -audio track*.wav

This is if you you dump all the .wavs into a seperate folder and don't care about the order very much, unless you numbered the .wav's which is another step needed) I don't like to spend 4 hours orginzing my music files to make this easier. I'm sure that many tricks that can be used for this, but it's not really worth the hastle.

If a GUI can save me 2 hours of work, I will use the GUI. If it makes extra step to what I'm trying to do, I use the CLi