K3b

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K3b
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K3b the CD/DVD Kreator
Developer(s) Sebastrian Trueg, Christian Kvasny
Release information
Initial release {{{released}}}
Stable release 0.12
Preview release
Compatibility
Operating system Linux/BSD
Additional information
Use CD/DVD Authoring
License GPL
Website http://www.k3b.org/

Introduction

What is K3b? K3B is a CD/DVD authoring application frontend written for KDE interface under GNU/Linux. K3b effectively makes use of command-line utilities CDRDAO, CDRecord and growofis to handle the actual writing of information to a disc.

Features

These are some common features that K3b supports like most CD/DVD burning applications:

Data CD's

  • Add files and folders to your data cd project via drag'n'drop.
  • Remove files from your project, move files within your project.
  • Create empty direcories within your project.
  • Write data cds on-the-fly directly without an image file or with image file. It's also possible to just create the image file and write it to cd later.
  • Rockridge and Joliet file system support.
  • Rename files in your project.
  • Let K3b rename all the mp3/ogg files you add to your project to a common format like "artist - title.mp3".
  • For advanced users: support for nearly all the mkisofs options.
  • Verifying the burned data.
  • Support for multible El-Torito boot images.
  • Multisession support

CD Copying

  • Copy single and multi session data CDs
  • Copy Audio CDs
  • Copy Enhanced Audio CDs (CD-Extra)
  • Copy CD-Text
  • Add CD-Text from cddb
  • CD Cloning mode for perfect single session CD copies

DVD Writing

  • Support for DVD-R(W) and DVD+R(W)
  • Creating data DVD projects
  • Creating eMovix DVDs
  • Formatting DVD-RWs and DVD+RWs

Screenshots

K3b Guides

Development API

External links