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arson v0.9.6
Tony Sideris <tonys111@users.sourceforge.net>

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• Description

Arson is a KDE frontend to various CD burning, and ripping tools. It was originally begun to burn audio CDs because i could find no other frontends which used cdrdao (in disk at once mode), which could decode various encoded audio formats (mp3, ogg), and displayed accurate track length as the playlist was created. But as usual once the initial plans were implemented I just kept going...

• Features

Full progress displayed for all lengthy operations Drag and drop from Konqueror to create play lists Audio CD Burning

        Accurate track length tally displayed as track list grows
        Supports various audio file types, currently:
                Wav
                Mp3
                Ogg Vorbis (optional)
                SHN
        Can optionally normalize (in batch or mix mode) all tracks before burning to even out volumes
        Can open, and optionally verify MD5 disk sets
Data CD Burning
        Existing ISO, and CUE/BIN files
        Image creation/burning from single directory tree
        Complete filesystem creation to come in later versions
        ISO images burned with either cdrdao or cdrecord
Audio CD ripping/encoding (rip tracks from CD to file)
        Can rip audio tracks using cdda2wav OR cdparanoia
        Encoding in various output file formats, currently:
                Wav
                Mp3 (bladeenc, and LAME supported)
                Ogg Vorbis (optional)
                AU
                CDR
                AIFF
                AIFC
        CdIndex support (a free CDDB-like service)
                HTTP retrieval
        Freedb support (a free, open CDDB service)
                HTTP, and local retrieval
                HTTP, and local submit
        CD-Text retrieval
        Supports generic SCSI and cooked IOCTL interfaces
        Auto tagging of MP3 files using id3v2
        Configurable audio quality presets (bitrate, channels, etc)
CD-to-CD copying
        Direct copy
        CD-to-file-to-CD copying
        Using either readcd/cdrecord or cdrdao

[S]VCD creation creation and burning
Device unlock/reset
CDRW Blanking

• Requirements

Burning CDs requires a system that has a CDR[W] drive, and/or other CDROM devices properly setup as specified by the CD-Writing HOWTO (SCSI or SCSI emulation), this document can be found here:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html

Also, this IS just a frontend, so the programs that do the actual work are obviously required. A full list of these programs can be found in the Programs tab of the configuration dialog. Which programs are actually required depends on what you plan on doing with arson. If you are only planning to rip audio tracks, then obviously none of the burning software is required, and vice versa.

The audio CD ripper should work with any CDROM drive configuration. If you do not have a SCSI CDROM drive, or an ATAPI CDROM drive configured to use SCSI emulation, then add an IOCTL device entry in the Devices page of the configuration dialog.

cdda2wav is required for ripping audio tracks. cdda2wav or cdparanoioa can be used to actually rip the tracks, but cdda2wav is required to do the initial disk scan (it provides more information about the tracks, and disk, which cdparanoia does not).

cdrdao is required for audio CD copying. readcd/cdrecord can only be used to copy data CDs.

cdrdao is required for audio CD writing, support for writing audio CDs with cdrecord will come in the future.

Currently arson can only write data CDs by writing a single directory tree, and a data CD copy. To write a directory tree mkisofs is required in addition to either cdrdao or cdrecord. Either cdrdao, or readcd/cdrecord is required to do a data CD copy.

• Installation see INSTALL file
• Todo see TODO file
• Credits see AUTHORS file