Hi,

I am looking for a graphical burning software in linux that is comparable to nero. I mean that is has the same functionality or better. My understanding is that all the software out their for burning in linux are graphical frontends to other programs. I want to be able to make an audion cd drag and drop mp3's and have them auto converted and burned to the cd so i can play them in a cd player. I want to be able to make data cd's with directory trees. I want to be able to copy audio cd's with one click. Basically all the comforts i am accustomed to in winblows. Any suggestions guidence would be greatly appreciated.

PS. What's the deal i keep encountering about scsi emulation. I thought with the new linux-2.6 series that was old news. with cdrwtools you don't need scsi emulation, but all the frontends i've seen say you must use scsi emulation. I would prefer not to.

thanks, keep rockin hard and groovin smooth

i've never used nero, but k3b is about as user friendly as you will find.

Hi,

Thanks for the response, I was wondering is their anything that has that functionality without its requirements. I do not have gnome or kde, and i don't want to have to install anything i only need for one program

thanks

You will need gtk and a few support programs for Nero. For K3b, you will need qt and kdelibs installed and not the whole KDE desktop.

I have downloaded/installed/tried Nero for Linux on both Fedora Core 3 and SUSE 9.2 and it worked on both distros perfectly, so far.
NeroLinux does not use SCSI emulation. It has drag & drop capabilities and allows you to convert mp3 to regular audio CDs.

Yeah... I like Nero too but not enough to purchase just to get the Linux Version. ( http://ww2.nero.com/us/NeroLINUX.html )

I find K3b and cdrecord can do anything Nero can and I don't have to install or register anything.

KC

I certainly want to use K3B for all these burning stuff, but, K3B has disappointed me more than one time and I have lost faith in its capabilities.

I asked a friend who was using XP to try out FC2, and I burnt the images to CDs using K3B, and damn, 5 CDs got wasted due to incorrect burning. I was so so ashamed to find out that K3B was unable to work properly while I was just introducing Linux to my friend.

It worked fine last time when I had kernel 2.6.5-1.358 ... but after that, it simply doesnt work reliably... please tell me if there is some problems with later kernels. Sometimes it does not even detect my writer in normal user mode. Sometimes it just fails to erase CDs, sometimes, it is unable to continue multisessions.

I found that even the Windows XP burner works more reliably that K3B. I found this a little shameful.