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.
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What is 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
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
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Summary
Our users have written 9 comments and reviews about Brasero, and it has gotten 286 likes
- Developed by Philippe Rouquier, Luis Medinas, Joshua Lock
- Open Source and Free product.
- Average rating of 3.3
- 57 alternatives listed
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Recent user activities on Brasero
- altersoft added Burnaware Premium as an alternative to Braseroal5 months ago
- generickidsacct edited Brasero5 months ago
- Guest Upvoted a comment on BraseroGuNew score... 6 damaged (audio) CD's in 2 days10 months ago
This thing makes Nero Linux 4 a piece of overpriced crap. It has almost every feature that Nero Linux 4 has! Combine this with Handbrake, and you got yourself a special piece of software called Nero StartSmart for Linux.
it's nice i find and i used it in linux mint debian ubuntu knoppix
New score... 6 damaged (audio) CD's in 2 days
Zorin OS has a nice built-in system CD/DVD Creator, similar to the Windows solution. I managed to burn DVD successfully and play it both on Linux and on Windows with VLC.
It looks like my adventure with Brasero on Ubuntu MATE was one of the harsh ones mentioned in the reviews. DVD destroyed.
debian/ubuntu users ought install ACTUAL-cdrtools and ditch the debian broken "fork" to fully benefit from the brasero front end:
http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/cdrecord.html
Ubuntu users who are not comfortable compiling themselves are encouraged to use this PPA
https://launchpad.net/~brandonsnider/+archive/cdrtools
One may optionally create links to old broken binaries from the current-, maintained-, functional binaries to quell issues with quarrelsome software.
Wiki*dia, "truth" by consensus, not surprisingly is not representing the issue correctly.
If you want to destroy as many DVDs as possible, try Brasero. It killed 10 DVDs in just two days. And this ain't a problem of the DVDs, because the same brand works flawlessly with K3B. On top of that, Brasero burns my 4x DVD+RWs at only 0.3x speed. Again, with K3B no problem. Avoid Brasero at any rate!