Tool

Domnic Mendes, who had a positive experience with this tool, thought K3b would be a good addition to Cool Tools.

• 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
• Verifying the burned data
• Support for multible El-Torito boot images
• Multisession support
• Creating audio CDs:
• Pluggable audio decoding. Plugins for WAV, MP3, FLAC, and Ogg Vorbis are included
• CD-TEXT support. Will automagically be filled in from tags in audio files
• Write audio CDs on-the-fly without decoding audio files to wav before
• Normalize volume levels before writing
• Cut audio tracks at the beginning and the end
• Creating Video CDs:
• VCD 1.1, 2.0, SVCD
• CD-i support (Version 4)
• Creating mixed-mode CDs:
• CD-Extra (CD-Plus, Enhanced Audio CD) support
• All data and audio project features
• Creating eMovix CDs
• CD Copy:
• Copy single and multi session data CDs
• Copy Audio CDs
• Copy Enhanced Audio CDs (CD-Extra)
• Copy CD-Text
• Add CD-Text from cddb
• CD Cloning mode for perfect single session CD copies
• DVD burning:
• Support for DVD-R(W) and DVD+R(W)
• Creating data DVD projects
• Creating eMovix DVDs
• Formatting DVD-RWs and DVD+RWs
• 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
• CD-TEXT reading. May be used instead of CDDB info
• 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
• Plugin system to allow encoding to virtually every audio format. Plugins to encode to Ogg Vorbis, Mp3, FLAC, and all formats supported by SoX included
• DVD Ripping and DivX/XviD encoding
• Save/load projects
• Blanking of CDR-Ws
• Retrieving Table of contents and cdr information
• Writing existing iso images to CD or DVD with optional verification of the written data
• Writing cue/bin files created for CDRWIN
• DVD copy (no video transcoding yet)
• Enhanced CD device handling:
• Detection of max. writing and reading speed
• Detection of Burnfree and Justlink support
• Good media detection and optional automatic CD-RW and DVD-RW blanking
• KParts-Plugin ready