Hello,
I’m looking for an audio CD burning package with a GUI that accepts a range of formats and allows me to change the length of gaps between songs. A bit like k3b, yes. BUT…
I’m using Fluxbox on the laptop and thus far managed to keep bits from the other desktop environments away. So is there a fully-featured CD burning package that does not have KDE or GNOME dependencies?
Possibly
http://graveman.tuxfamily.org/
Is graveman as good as K3b?
It’s all a matter of opinion. Probably not IMO
Can you please explain me what is IMO,one is I know the IMO is a short cut.;).
Thanks
Mike
IMO = In My Opinion
sometimes you’ll see it as
IMHO - In My Honest Opinion
Take Care,
Ian
1michael1 wrote:
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> caf4926;1979528 Wrote:
>> Possibly
>> http://graveman.tuxfamily.org/
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> Is graveman as good as K3b?
If you want something like k3b you might consider buying nero.
http://www.nero.com/eng/linux3.html
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Chris Maaskant
Agh. Nero.
I thought that might be the answer. I’ve tried Graveman - very basic and not suitable for making audio CDs where track silences can be different lengths.
I know that GCDmaster can do this, but it has GNOME dependencies and won’t run on my system.
I suppose at £13.99, Nero isn’t too expensive… but you’d have thought someone somewhere would have written a full-featured GUI to cdrdao? I would do it myself if I had the skills… Ah well.
I bought and istalled Nero a while back and I have had excellent results with it. I don’t mind paying for stuff if it works. I really like the way it rips CD’s and it does a good job of recording. But I still like K3b too. 
Well, I don’t have a problem with Nero - although I haven’t used it since Windows. I used to use a great program called burnatonce which did EVERYTHING and was small. But I don’t own a credit card, so Nero isn’t an option.
Maybe if burnatonce works with Wine… agh, it doesn’t totally.
Does a nice programmer want to be paid in beer???
Flipping hell.
It obviously was going to get worse rather than better… I then discovered that I now couldn’t get Jack-Rack to work unless I got libgnomeui * so ended up downloading 10MB of GNOME stuff for a 1MB program that’s supposed to work without it. Since that’s the case I may as well install GCDMaster. Thanks for the suggestions anyway!*
there’s also brasero. Small, but working nicely. And, since you’re after minimal install AFAICS, why not use the command line and use cdrecord directly. It’s used by k3b, so all you’d have to do is find out how to get it working.
As for Nero for Linux: read the comparisons between k3b and Nero for Linux and you will see that you’re paying for something you’ve already got …
GCDMaster is smaller than Brasero for the same dependencies. I can’t see why it needs GNOME when as xcdrdao it didn’t, but that’s life…
As for the command-line… ah, y’see, avoiding the command-line is the point. I want to sit on a train with my laptop, finish editing stuff and then open up my menu, bring an app that allows me to point at stuff to select it, maybe enter a few numbers to sort out pre-gaps and crossfades, and then gives me a big button that says “Go”. Then while it’s doing that I can carry on playing Freeciv.
I work with graphical things and like graphical tools and interfaces. It’s just the way I am.
As for Nero for Linux: read the comparisons between k3b and Nero for Linux and you will see that you’re paying for something you’ve already got …
I agree entirely. But if you don’t want to use KDE or GNOME, there isn’t much of an option if you want a CD-burning GUI that can handle advanced stuff. That’s the pity: it’s like a desktop environment lock-in.
Hello,
Not sure if anyone found a perfect solution - I still haven’t. Something that comes VERY close is recorder - Project Hosting on Google Code but it’s too simple.
Having given it some more thought, I can see a way of making a non-KDE/GNOME CD gui [even though I don’t have the knowledge to make it happen]:
Is that easy to do? I had a look at Xdialog, but as I’ve said, I’m no good at programming: I’m not sure where I’d start with a script…
Have you looked at BashBurn?
The ncurses fork of BashBurn is MyBashBurn.
I haven’t used either one, I’d be interested in others’ opinions.
I have. Not for me, I’d say - they both require you to move/copy the files into a folder and THEN start the program to burn, which I’m not going to remember to do if I’m in a hurry: and I couldn’t set pre/post-gap, which is what I really need.
I can’t locate a GUI app that would do this. But I’m looking.
The best suggestion that I can make, after a lot of searching on hydrogenaudio.org, is perhaps to use cuetools and shntool, create a custom cue-sheet and then burn the CD. Or run foobar under wine. Those are extremely ugly solutions!
I run Openbox and I would appreciate a good CD-DVD burning utility with minimal dependencies, too.
If you do run across a solution, please post it.
For basic audio CD making on a non-KDE/GNOME system then I reckon it’s
recorder - Project Hosting on Google Code
If it were more suited to audio I’d be using it all the time. And I could finally get round to suggesting Linux to others for audio work [although not notation - don’t get me started…].
A small but largely negative update.
I tried tkcdrdao today - after editing some small typos in the source code, it ran. But I could not get it to do anything at all. If anybody else has got this working please let me know!
Hello again - I’m trying to look at Gmerlin.
From the blurb it looks like it could write to CD, using a package called gmerlin_postprocess. I got quite excited and got the bundle of stuff from Packman, but it didn’t work - apparently there are issues with the packages at present. I’m going to try building it from source and see how far I get. Does anyone use gmerlin?