Brasero

Brasero is an application to burn CD/DVD for the GNOME Desktop. It is designed to be as simple as possible and has some unique features to enable users to create their discs easily and quickly.

Features

• Supports multiple backends: cdrtools, growisofs and libburn(optional). Note: compiling against libburn is not enough. You need to activate the backend through GSettings

Features / Data CD/DVD

• Supports edition of discs contents (remove/move/rename files inside directories)
• Can burn data CD/DVD on the fly
• Automatic filtering for unwanted files (hidden files, broken/recursive symlinks, files not conforming to joliet standard, ...)
• Supports multisession
• Supports joliet extension
• Can write the image to the hard drive
• Can check disc file integrity

Features / Audio CD

• Write CD-TEXT information (automatically found thanks to gstreamer)
• Supports the edition of CD-TEXT information
• Can burn audio CD on the fly
• Can use all audio files handled by Gstreamer local installation (ogg, flac, mp3, ...)
• Can search for audio files inside dropped folders
• Full edition of silences between tracks

Features / CD/DVD copy

• Can copy a CD/DVD to the hard drive
• Can copy CD and DVD on the fly
• Supports single-session data DVD
• Supports any kind of CD

Features / Others

• Erase CD/DVD
• Can save/load projects
• Can burn CD/DVD images and cue files
• Song, image and video previewer
• Device detection thanks to HAL
• File change notification (requires kernel > 2.6.13)
• A customisable GUI (when used with GDL)
• Supports Drag and Drop / Cut'n'Paste from nautilus (and others apps)
• Can use files on a network as long as the protocol is handled by gnome-vfs
• Can search for files thanks to beagle (search is based on keywords or on file type)
• Can display a playlist and its contents (note that playlists are automatically searched through beagle)
• All disc IO is done asynchronously to prevent the application from blocking