CD burning: Audio, mixed, and MP3 CDs

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Friday 10 April 2009 7:28:33 pm John Moser wrote:
> First off I dislike Brasero, the UI's complex.  Nautilus CD creator or
> Serpantine holds up better for elegant simplicity.  But whatever,
> Brasero's more powerful and consolidated.

AFAICT, it's as powerful as Gnomebaker or K3B but with a simpler UI.

> Other than that, anything I throw at it gets burned to the CD.
> Ability to lay out a directory hierarchy and playlists would be nice
> too, but pretty much it should just burn files to the CD in an audio
> format I've set.  If that format is "MP3" and no others, it should
> convert anything I give it to MP3.  If it's a mix of input and
> supported, it should go by my preference.  

Nice idea.  Makes sense.  On further extension, teaching Rhythmbox to 
transcode when transferring music to a player (I think Banshee does this?) 
would be nice too.

>  (why oh why don't brand new car CD players
> with MP3 support read DVDs?!)

Because then it would be a misnomer.

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
apt-get moo
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