AudioCD burning, another call for testers !

[Wouter Stomp]

On 7/16/05, Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net> wrote:

> I think you're confused about the goal of Serpentine: it is an audio CD
> burning solution. Gnomebaker is a full-fledged burning solution.

I know, but gnomebaker does audio cd burning equally well if not
better than serpentine. Both gnomebaker and serpentine were considered
as a solution for burning audio discs.

> > Gnomebaker:
> > + can copy cd's (data and audio)
> 
> nautilus-cd-burner can do this (right-click on a CD device in
> "Computer", you'll see the option there).

But when you are in your favourite (audio) cd burning program you
would generally expect to be able to do it from there as well...

> 
> > + can import existing session on a cd
> > + copying data cd's on the fly
> 
> We should support that, although I'm not sure it's a very good idea.

Why isn't it a good idea?

> > + adding files is easier (no need to go to a seperate dialog for every file)
> > + can burn dvd's as well
> 
> nautilus-cd-burner can burn DVDs as well.
> 

It can do it, and that is cool, but gnomebaker provides more
functionality, for instance you can see how much space you have left
on the cd/dvd.

> > + can format/blank rewritable discs
> 
> nautilus-cd-burner does this before burning the CD. gfloppy should be
> extended to be able to blank CD-RWs and DVD+/-RWs as well.
> 

But serpentine can't do it... (and you can use cdrw's for audio right?
don't know because I haven't used cdrw's for that purpose)

> > + 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 uses libnautilus-burn, which should use HAL. Check in
> hal-device-manager whether your device appears, if not, then it's a
> nautilus-cd-burner bug.
> 

It is probably a nautilus-cd-burner bug, it is listed in HAL, but I
can't write discs with nautilus either.

> > Serpentine:
> > - doesn't support burnfree? (not sure about this one)
> 
> Should be able to, although it could create lesser quality CDs, if
> there's actually a problem.

Should be, does that mean can do it? It isn't listed in the preferences dialog.

Two more advantages of gnomebaker I found:
- has a help file
- can write 22 minute audio discs (those small size cd's)

Wouter.