K3b

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CD burning application - optimized for KDE

Posted:	27 Jan 2006
License:	GPL
Download:	http://k3b.plainblack.com/download
Home Page:	http://www.k3b.org/
Publisher:	K3b Team

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

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

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

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:

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