K3b

What is it?

K3b is a CD and DVD burning application which provides a comfortable user interface to perform most CD/DVD burning tasks like creating an Audio CD from a set of audio files or copying a CD or DVD.

See the K3b homepage for more detailed information

Features so far

• Creating data cds:
  • Add files and folders to your data cd project via drag'n'drop.
  • Remove files from your project, move files within your project.
  • Create empty direcories within your project.
  • Write data cds on-the-fly directly without an image file or with image file. It's also possible to just create the image file and write it to cd later.
  • Rockridge and Joliet support.
  • Rename files in your project.
  • Let K3b rename all the mp3/ogg files you add to your project to a common format like "artist - title.mp3".
  • For advanced users: support for nearly all the mkisofs options.
• Creating audio cds:
  • WAV, MP3, and OGG support so far.
  • CD-TEXT support. Will automagically be filled in from id3 tags in mp3 files.
  • Write audio cds on-the-fly without decoding mp3/ogg files to wav or the old fashioned way.
  • Gimmick: hide the first track within the first pregap on the cd so you have to seek backwards on your cd player to find it.
• CD Ripping:
  • CDDB support via http, cddbp and local cddb directory.
  • Sophisticated pattern system to automatically organize the ripped tracks in directories and name them according to album, title, artist, and track number.
  • K3b stores CDDB info of the ripped tracks which will automatically be used as CD-TEXT when adding the ripped files to an audio project.
  • No SCSI emulation for ATAPI drives necessary for cd ripping.
• DVD Ripping and DivX/XviD encoding
• Save/load projects.
• Blanking of cdrws.
• Retrieving Table of contents and cdr information.
• Writing existing iso images to cd.
• Writing cue/bin files created for CDRWIN
• CD Copy.
• Enhanced cd decive handling:
  • Detection of max. writing and reading speed.
  • Detection of BURN-PROOF support.
  • Waiting for an empty cdr to be inserted before writing.

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