Burncenter 3

What is this ?

burncenter <3 was a simple shell script, frontend to cdrecord/mkisofs/cdda2wav. burncenter >=3 is a Perl module (Burncenter.pm) and a collection of frontends for this module.

Intended audience

Users wanting to automate process of burning, copying CDs.
Perl developers wanting to create a custom CD-burning program, without reinventing the wheel.

Installation

. Get SVN or tarball
. Go into the directory where burncenter3 is unpacked . Type ./install

. When you launch burncenter for the first time, it will detect that no configuration has be done and will ask you the right questions. . If you feel you have done an error, you can choose the "Reconfigure" option in the menu.

Features

Modular Perl design
Creation of multi and single sessions data CD
Creation of audio CDs, from WAV, MP3 or OGG files or from a playlist
Copy of Data and Audio CDs
CDRW support of blanking disc
non-interactive frontend (useful for scripts)

Contact

Email: alex14fr@yahoo.fr
Web: http://alex14.home.dyndns.org/burncenter/

Requirements

Required

. An IDE, SCSI, USB CD-Writer supported by cdrecord and your Operating System . An UNIX-like Operating System (currently tested on GNU/Linux) . cdrecord/mkisofs (both included in the same source package named cdrtools), available at http://www.cdrecord.org . perl version 5 (I develop burncenter using 5.6.1) . A bourne-compatible shell (I use GNU bash)

Recommended

. cdda2wav, to copy audio CDs (available in the source package cdrtools, like cdrecord and mkisofs) . mpg123 to burn audio CDs from MP3 files (http://www.mpg123.de) . ogg-vorbis tools to burn audio CDs from OGG files (http://www.xiph.org/ogg/) . normalize to burn audio CDs with normalized sound (http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~cvaill/normalize/)