7.1 Creating CDs

The CD Burner is a feature-rich CD/DVD burning application using K3b - The CD Kreator. It supports various project types (audio CD, data CD, mixed mode CD, Video CD, and data DVD) and also features like Audio CD ripping with CDDB support.

Figure 107 K3b - The CD Kreator

K3b - The CD Kreator 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. The experienced user can take advantage of all steps of the burning process, and the beginner can use the automatic settings and the CD Burner defaults that allow a quick start.

7.1.1 Creating a Data CD

  1. Click NMultimediaCD/DVD Burning.

  2. Click the New Data CD Project icon in the bottom panel.

  3. Follow the instructions to drag and drop files you want to include on the CD.

  4. Click ProjectBurn.

  5. Specify the settings for burning your CD, then click Burn.

7.1.2 Creating an Audio CD

  1. Click NMultimediaCD/DVD Burning.

  2. Click the New Audio CD Project icon in the bottom panel.

  3. Follow the instructions to drag and drop the audio tracks you want to include on the CD.

    The audio data must be in MP3, WAV, or Ogg Vorbis format. You can determine the sequence of the tracks by moving them up or down in the project folder.

  4. Click ProjectBurn.

  5. Specify the settings for burning your CD, then click Burn.

    If you select the Track at Once mode, a two-second intermission is inserted after each track.

7.1.3 Copying a CD

  1. Click NMultimediaCD/DVD Burning.

  2. Click the Copy CD icon in the bottom panel.

  3. Select settings for the CD reading and writing devices.

    Click On the Fly to burn the CD as soon as it has been read, or click Only Create Image to create an image in the path specified in the Write Image File to field.

  4. Click Start.

7.1.4 Writing ISO Images

  1. Click NMultimedia CD/DVD Burning.

  2. Click Tools, select the media, then click Burn ISO Image.

  3. Browse to and select the image to burn.

    K3b calculates and displays a checksum. If the ISO file was downloaded from the Internet, this sum is displayed if the download was successful.

  4. (Optional) Use the Options and Advanced tabbed pages to set your preferences.

  5. Click Start to burn the image.