Open Source applications: Recorder
There’s no good GTK burning application. Well, at least for me there isn’t. I don’t know what it is, but neither Brasero, nor Gnomebaker or Nautilus CD Burning work well with my Philips CD burner. Brasero just hangs at 0%, then throws an error and spits out the CD, which has become a coaster. Last time I tried GnomeBaker it just kept on crashing. And Nautilus CD burner always throws an error, saying that burning has failed, even when it hasn’t. In the end, I just gave up and installed k3b, which is of course a Qt-application, but at least it works well.
Enter: Recorder. Recorder is fast, lightweight, looks good, and works well. Sometimes.
I haven’t tested burning to DVD, because I don’t have a DVD lying around, but have tested writing an audio cd and writing an image (Slitaz) to disk. Novice users could be intimidated by the text scrolling past when it’s burning a CD, or by the need to enter the path to your CD drive yourself in Preferences, but autodetection of drives is in the works. Another downside is that, unless you’re an Arch user, you’ll have to compile it from source. However, it’s not a large program and the dependencies are listed at the website, so that shouldn’t be a problem.
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