K3b provides a comfortable user interface to perform most CD/DVD burning tasks. While the experienced user can take influence in all steps of the burning process the beginner may find comfort in the automatic settings and the reasonable k3b defaults which allow a quick start.
Allows you to burn multi-session disks.
I use DVD +R and CD -R for multi sessions.
For K3B:
1. Insert your media into the appropriate optical device (make sure it is capable of burning your media type).
2. Launch K3B
3. From K3B Main Menu (I'll use the DVD as an example), Click on the "New Data DVD Project".
4. From the top pulldown, make sure you have selected the proper optical device.
5. Click on the icon next to the "Burn" icon popup="Import a previous session".
6. Let K3B do it's thing as far as searching for the previous session.
7. When you see the correct previous session as a selection, select it and click "OK".
That will load in your previous session and allow you to append to the CD or DVD.
Good Luck,
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=360297
The features are presented in no particular order and the list might be incomplete...
Creating data cds:
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
Creating audio cds:
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.
Creating Video CDs:
VCD 1.1, 2.0, SVCD
CD-i support (Version 4)
Creating mixed-mode CDs:
CD-Extra (CD-Plus, Enhanced Audio CD) support.
All data and audio project features.
Creating eMovix CDs
CD Copy
Copy single and multi session data CDs
Copy Audio CDs
Copy Enhanced Audio CDs (CD-Extra)
Copy CD-Text
Add CD-Text from cddb
CD Cloning mode for perfect single session CD copies
DVD burning:
Support for DVD-R(W) and DVD+R(W)
Creating data DVD projects
Creating eMovix DVDs
Formatting DVD-RWs and DVD+RWs
CD Ripping:
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:
Detection of max. writing and reading speed.
Detection of Burnfree and Justlink support.
Good media detection and optional automatic CD-RW and DVD-RW blanking
KParts-Plugin ready.
K3b (from KDE Burn Baby Burn) is a CD and DVD authoring application for the KDE desktop environment for Unix-like computer operating systems. It provides a graphical user interface to perform most CD/DVD burning tasks like creating an Audio CD from a set of audio files or copying a CD/DVD, as well as more advanced tasks such as burning eMoviX CD/DVDs. It can also perform direct disc-to-disc copies. The program has many default settings which can be customized by more experienced users. The actual disc recording in K3b is done by the command line utilities cdrecord or cdrkit, cdrdao, and growisofs. As of version 1.0, K3b features a built-in DVD ripper.
As is the case with most KDE applications, K3b is written in the C++ programming language and uses the Qt GUI toolkit. Released under the GNU General Public License, K3b is free software.
A first alpha of a KDE Platform 4 version of K3b was released on 22 April 2009, the second on 27 May 2009 and a third on 14 October 2009.
K3b is a software project that was started in 1998, and is one of the mainstays of the KDE desktop.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K3b
Gnomebaker is an easy to use CD/DVD burner. Its current features include:
Data and audio CD burning
Multisession CDs
DVD formating
DVD data disk burning
On-the-fly data CD burning
Cue bin data CD writing
8 MB
Burning a multisession disk failed in the second burning.
First burning was successful.
Error 1
Said cant open the drive
It was fixed after 'Edit > Preferences > Scan devices', before importing the session.
Error 2
I successfully imported the previous session.
This is what i get while burning.
I: -input-charset not specified, using utf-8 (detected in locale settings)
WARNING: the deprecated pseudo SCSI syntax found as device specification.
Support for that may cease in the future versions of wodim. For now,
the device will be mapped to a block device file where possible.
Run "wodim --devices" for details.
Error trying to open /dev/scd1 exclusively (Device or resource busy)... retrying in 1 second.
Error trying to open /dev/scd1 exclusively (Device or resource busy)... retrying in 1 second.
Error trying to open /dev/scd1 exclusively (Device or resource busy)... retrying in 1 second.
Error trying to open /dev/scd1 exclusively (Device or resource busy)... retrying in 1 second.
Error trying to open /dev/scd1 exclusively (Device or resource busy)... giving up.
genisoimage: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/scd255'. Cannot open SCSI driver.
genisoimage: No such file or directory. Unable to open previous session image '0,1,0'.
Learned 1
refreshed the knowledge about etc/fstab and file system mounting
/dev/sr1 /media/cdrom udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
sr1 - cd writer
sr0 - dvd rom
To check what your device is:
ls -la /dev/ | grep cdrom
.. or if you have a dvd-burner
ls -la /dev/ | grep dvd
Learned 2
further explore about
wodim - write data to optical disk media
praveen@praveen-desktop:~$ wodim --devices
wodim: Overview of accessible drives (1 found) :
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
0 dev='/dev/scd0' rwrw-- : 'SONY' 'DVD-ROM DDU1615'
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
praveen@praveen-desktop:~$ wodim --devices
wodim: Overview of accessible drives (1 found) :
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
0 dev='/dev/scd0' rwrw-- : 'SONY' 'DVD-ROM DDU1615'
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
praveen@praveen-desktop:~$ wodim
wodim: No tracks specified. Need at least one.
Usage: wodim [options] track1...trackn
Use wodim -help
to get a list of valid options.
Use wodim blank=help
to get a list of valid blanking options.
Use wodim dev=b,t,l driveropts=help -checkdrive
to get a list of drive specific options.
Use wodim dev=help
to get a list of possible SCSI transport specifiers.