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 K3B 0.11.11




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The basic K3b idea

K3b was created to be a feature-rich and easy to handle CD burning application. It consists of basicly three parts:

  1. The projects:
    Projects are created from the file menu and then filled with data to burn.
  2. The Tools:
    The tools menu offers different tools like CD copy or DVD formatting.
  3. Context sensitive media actions:
    When clicking on the Icon representing a CD/DVD drive K3b will present it's contents and allow some further action. This is for example the way to rip audio CDs.

K3b features

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.
  • Creating audio cds:
    • Pluggable audio decoding. Plugins for WAV, MP3, and Ogg Vorbis are included.
    • CD-TEXT support. Will automagically be filled in from id3 tags in mp3 files.
    • Write audio cds on-the-fly without decoding mp3/ogg files to wav or the old fashioned way.
    • Gimmick: hide the first track within the first pregap on the cd so you have to seek backwards on your cd player to find it.
  • 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
  • Creating eMovix CDs
  • 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.
    • No SCSI emulation for ATAPI drives nessesary for cd ripping.
    • Plugin system to allow encoding to virtually every audio format (Ogg Vorbis plugin 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
  • CD Copy.
  • CD Cloning for perfect CD copies
  • DVD copy (no video transcoding yet)
  • Enhanced cd decive handling:
    • Detection of max. writing and reading speed.
    • Detection of BURN-PROOF support.
    • Good media detection and optional automatic CD-RW and DVD-RW blanking
  • KParts-Plugin ready.