K3b
K3b is a full-featured CD/DVD/Blu-ray burning and ripping application.
- Free • Open Source
- Linux
- BSD
- KDE
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What is K3b?
K3b is a CD and DVD authoring application for the KDE desktop environment for Unix-like computer operating systems. It provides a graphical user interface to perform most CD/DVD burning tasks like creating an Audio CD from a set of audio files or copying a CD/DVD, as well as more advanced tasks such as burning eMoviX CD/DVDs. It can also perform direct disc-to-disc copies. The program has many default settings which can be customized by more experienced users. The actual disc recording in K3b is done by the command line utilities cdrecord or wodim, cdrdao, and grow
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- copy-cd
- DVD Ripping
- iso
- bluray
- audio-cd-burner
- cd-burner
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K3b
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Our users have written 4 comments and reviews about K3b, and it has gotten 235 likes
- Developed by KDE
- Open Source and Free product.
- Average rating of 4
- 57 alternatives listed
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- altersoft added Burnaware Premium as an alternative to K3bal5 months ago
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K3b is the default program for burning disk images - .iso images, if you will - to DVD on KDE, including KDE's recent Plasma 5 desktop. I have never used anything as convenient or easy or fully featured, out-of-the box as this. In the simplest case, you put the DVD in, you start K3b, you drag the .iso file over and that's it. It's even a pleasure to read the message that tells you something like "if you don't know what to do, leave everything as it is and K3b will do it for you." Nice. Software should make life easier. K3b achieved this admirably.
I met with a heavy heart news that K3b is no longer in development. For the moment, it works and is still distributed with the KDE desktop environments. Alternatives... holds back tear... alternatives, include Brasero and Xfburn . Both are very good, mind, open source and freely available from a Linux repository near you.
debian/ubuntu users ought install ACTUAL-cdrtools and ditch broken "fork" to fully benefit from the k3b front end.
Ubuntu users who are not comfortable compiling themselves are encouraged to use this PPA
https://launchpad.net/~brandonsnider/+archive/cdrtools
Not every kind of file supported. To be on the safe side, convert to more popular formats before burning. May have some trouble with external storage.
Since I am on Ubuntu I use this program a lot and it does a wonderful job, its quicker and easier than any other CD/DVD program that I have used.