Creating audio CDs in Hoary.

George Farris george at gmsys.com
Sun Dec 19 13:22:42 CST 2004


On Sun, 2004-19-12 at 14:22 +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 07:35:17PM -0500, thully at umich.edu wrote:
> > The only thing that may be a good idea that is different from the way
> > Sound Juicer works is to allow one to create an audio CD in Nautilus -
> > as users should be able to do this.
> 
> I am not convinced this should be the case. After all, Audio CDs are
> very different to data CDs, as they do not have a file system or files
> or anything Nautilus usually interacts with.
> 
> I think Rhythmbox (or another sound application) is better suited to
> select the tracks you want to burn (it should know about them anyway).
> Alternatively, you should have a stand-alone burning program which does
> all the funky stuff, like mixed-mode CDs and so on.
> 

Only having RB do this is not really the best IMHO.  A standalone app is
better.  I like RB and me it is probably the best choice but what if
someone dumps RB for another music app, there goes you ability to burn
audio CD's.





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