KreateCD - frontend for CD writers using the K Desktop Environment

according to the GNU GPL in the file COPYING

KreateCD is a graphical frontend for some cd recording software. It can be used to simplify the process of creating CD-Rs on Linux computers with the K desktop environment installed. This utility calls the base applications (which are shell commands) for you so you will be able to burn CD-Rs very comfortably without knowing dozens of options and switches. :-)

KreateCD is far from being complete but you will already be able to burn some simple CD-Rs with it. There is no ISO9660 mastering support by now but you should be able to copy CD-ROMs and audio CDDA. You can even burn your favorite .WAV files on CDDA - including automatic boosting so that the maximum dynamic range of the CDDA is used.

Of course you use this software at YOUR OWN RISK - don't kill me because of unusable CD-R media. This software is not tested very well because it is a very early release and I'm no copy shop.

REQUIREMENTS

Linux 2.x.x or Solaris 8 or other Unix-like system (not tested)
QT 2.2 or any later
KDE 2.0 or any later
SCSI CD-ROM and SCSI CD writer or IDE with SCSI emulation support
cdrecord 1.9a05 (http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/
private/cdrecord.html)
cdparanoia-III-alpha 9.7 or later (http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/index.html)
mkisofs-1.13a05 (included with cdrecord)
cdda2wav 1.9a05 (included with cdrecord)

BUGS

Reporting a bug will not only help you (your problems will most likely be solved), but it will make us authors happy! You can submit your bugs using the SourceForge tracker at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=1801, or you can use the "Report Bug..." function in the Help Menu.

FEATURE REQUEST

As developers, we are certainly interested in what YOU want in the next release of KreateCD. You can submit your wishes and feature request on our sourceforge website, at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=351801&group_id=1801&func=browse

INSTALLATION

As "usual":

configure
make
make install

IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS WITH CONFIGURE FINDING CDRECORD, MKISOFS etc.

If configure claims that you don't have the needed helper application installed, please check twice if you have a correct version installed which is not too old. If you have installed a recent version and configure still aborts or gives warning messages, you can force to use this version. This is also neccessary if you installed multiple versions of a helper application and the first version in the path is too old. This is a known Problem with Solaris 8.

You will have to set the environment variable of the application which is not found to the complete path to this application. As an example you will have to set the environment variable MKISOFS to /usr/local/bin/mkisofs if your mkisofs is installed in /usr/local/bin.

If you set such a environment variable manually, configure doesn't check if you use a compatible version and bad things might happen if you force to use an old version.

CHANGES SINCE 1.0.0

support for on the fly copy
improved audio options dialog
new, improved user interface
different project types
Ogg vorbis support
Solaris au format support
displays fifo buffer and total percentage while burning
kreatecd should be more portable now
track edit actions can now be cancelled

CHANGES SINCE 0.4.0

need KDE >= 2.0
improved ISO 9660 dialog (with drag and drop)
ISO 9660 size calculation
ISO 9660 multisession support
Drag and drop in project window
new configuration dialogs
default ISO 9660 options can be configured
MP3 support
"audio only" project mode
various bugfixes

Have fun with it!

Alexander Feigl