K3b Version 1.0 Thanx for downloading K3b - The CD Kreator These are the features so far: - the most userfriendly interface ever ;-) - themable - Media-centric user interface: - Select the medium to use for burning instead of the device - K3b always knows about all optical devices and inserted media and adjusts the UI accordingly - writing audio-cds - On-the-fly decoding of many audio formats through plugin struxture (decoding plugins for mp3, ogg vorbis, flac, wave, musepack, wma, aiff, and others) - CD-Text support - Metadata support, fill CD-Text from metadata or via Internet queries (CDDB + Musicbrainz) - little gimmick: hide the first track (so that you have to search back from the beginning of the cd to find it) - volume level normalization (only when writing with an image) - multiple sources for one track possible (merging of tracks, splitting of tracks, adding silence of arbitrary length) - integrated "preview" player - Directly add audio tracks from other CDs and let K3b take care of the rest. - writing ISO9660-CDs and DVDs - Joliet/Rockridge support - Udf filestructures (no pure Udf so far) - create image/write image - writing on-the-fly - creating of file-tree via drag'n'drop (as easy as it could be) - removing files and directories from data tree - moving files within the project - adding new empty directories to data tree - renaming of files (manually or automatically for mp3-files) (for joliet and rockrigde) - support for most of the mkisofs-options (I don't think anyone will ever use them! ;-)) - multisession support (including importing old sessions and overwriting files from old sessions) Automagically multisession handling: start, continue, or finish multisession CDs and DVDs based on the size of the project and the remaining capacity on the media. - El Torito bootable CD/DVD support - writing Video CDs - VCD 1.1, 2.0, SVCD - CD-i support (Version 4) - writing mixed-mode CDs - CD-Extra (CD-Plus, Enhanced Audio CD) support - writing eMovix CDs and DVDs - writing data DVDs - Support for DVD-R(W) and DVD+R(W) - Support for DVD+R Double Layer media - formatting DVD-RWs and DVD+RWs - writing existing iso-images and cue/bin images to CD - Writing of Audio cue file images on-the-fly (All audio formats supported) - CD copy (data, audio, mixed mode) - DVD copy - CD cloning with cdrecord >=2.01a17 - blanking of CD-RWs - Also automagically before writing a CD. - CD ripping to wav, mp3, ogg-vorbis, flac, or whatever format needed - encoding plugin system - Cddb support - sophisticated pattern system to automatically organize the ripped tracks - m3u playlist creation - CD-TEXT support - DVD ripping with the transcode tools - Support for automatic clipping - DivX/XviD encoding - Retrieving CD/DVD info and toc - Powerful default and automatic settings See INSTALL for further information Please report bugs (with k3b output!) and tell me what you like/dislike about the user-interface! Have fun Sebastian Trueg (trueg@k3b.org)