AudioCD burning, another call for testers !

[Wouter Stomp]

On 7/6/05, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> hi,
> 
> as you can see on [2] the audio cd burning target [1] is implemented so
> far in the deafult desktop seed. to make sure everything works fine for
> release, we need as much testers as we can get, so if you plan to burn a
> audio CD these days, please help testing serpentine and file bugs you
> find in bugzilla.ubuntu.com !!
> 
> ciao
>         oli
> 
> [1] http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/AudioCDBurning
> [2] http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDownUnder/BreezyGoals
> 

Hi,

I see that audiocdburning is considered completed for breezy. From
earlier posts on the mailing lists I understood that serpentine was
chosen over gnomebaker with as main reason its dependencies already
being in main. Recently gnomebaker 0.4 got released which changes this
whole situation. The new release uses gstreamer just like serpentine.
The only extra dependency which is not yet in main is growisofs for
DVD burning. So I thought it might be worth reconsidering the
decision, because of reasons stated below.

Some pro's and con's I found after playing around for a little while
with both programs:

Gnomebaker:
+ can copy cd's (data and audio)
+ can import existing session on a cd
+ copying data cd's on the fly
+ adding files is easier (no need to go to a seperate dialog for every file)
+ can burn dvd's as well
+ can format/blank rewritable discs
+ seems to be compatible with more cd burners (just from personal
experience, my aopen DUW1608 is not recognised by serpentine, but is
by gnomebaker)

Serpentine:
+ simple basic interface
+ can open playlist files
+ muine plugin
- doesn't support burnfree? (not sure about this one)
- seems still a little buggy from my experience (haven't filed bugs
yet for the issues I had, will do that later...)

Overall I think gnomebaker is much more powerful and adds a lot of
funcionality. Especially the cd copying function I think fills a gap
in Ubuntu. Both programs have had a lot of testing, so that wouldn't
make a difference. I realize this would mean more work on something
that is considered completed when there is already a lot of work to do
for breezy, but in this case I think it could be worth it... I am
wondering what others think about this.

Wouter.