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- K3b Version 1.0
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- Thanx for downloading K3b - The CD Kreator
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- These are the features so far:
- - the most userfriendly interface ever ;-)
- - themable
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- - Media-centric user interface:
- - Select the medium to use for burning instead of the device
- - K3b always knows about all optical devices and inserted media and adjusts the UI accordingly
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- - writing audio-cds
- - On-the-fly decoding of many audio formats through plugin struxture
- (decoding plugins for mp3, ogg vorbis, flac, wave, musepack, wma, aiff, and others)
- - CD-Text support
- - Metadata support, fill CD-Text from metadata or via Internet queries (CDDB + Musicbrainz)
- - little gimmick: hide the first track (so that you have to search back from the
- beginning of the cd to find it)
- - volume level normalization (only when writing with an image)
- - multiple sources for one track possible (merging of tracks, splitting of tracks,
- adding silence of arbitrary length)
- - integrated "preview" player
- - Directly add audio tracks from other CDs and let K3b take care of the rest.
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- - writing ISO9660-CDs and DVDs
- - Joliet/Rockridge support
- - Udf filestructures (no pure Udf so far)
- - create image/write image
- - writing on-the-fly
- - creating of file-tree via drag'n'drop (as easy as it could be)
- - removing files and directories from data tree
- - moving files within the project
- - adding new empty directories to data tree
- - renaming of files (manually or automatically for mp3-files) (for joliet and rockrigde)
- - support for most of the mkisofs-options (I don't think anyone will ever use them! ;-))
- - multisession support (including importing old sessions and overwriting files from old sessions)
- Automagically multisession handling: start, continue, or finish multisession CDs and DVDs based on
- the size of the project and the remaining capacity on the media.
- - El Torito bootable CD/DVD support
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- - writing Video CDs
- - VCD 1.1, 2.0, SVCD
- - CD-i support (Version 4)
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- - writing mixed-mode CDs
- - CD-Extra (CD-Plus, Enhanced Audio CD) support
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- - writing eMovix CDs and DVDs
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- - writing data DVDs
- - Support for DVD-R(W) and DVD+R(W)
- - Support for DVD+R Double Layer media
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- - formatting DVD-RWs and DVD+RWs
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- - writing existing iso-images and cue/bin images to CD
- - Writing of Audio cue file images on-the-fly (All audio formats supported)
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- - CD copy (data, audio, mixed mode)
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- - DVD copy
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- - CD cloning with cdrecord >=2.01a17
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- - blanking of CD-RWs
- - Also automagically before writing a CD.
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- - CD ripping to wav, mp3, ogg-vorbis, flac, or whatever format needed
- - encoding plugin system
- - Cddb support
- - sophisticated pattern system to automatically organize the ripped tracks
- - m3u playlist creation
- - CD-TEXT support
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- - DVD ripping with the transcode tools
- - Support for automatic clipping
- - DivX/XviD encoding
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- - Retrieving CD/DVD info and toc
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- - Powerful default and automatic settings
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- See INSTALL for further information
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- Please report bugs (with k3b output!) and tell me what you like/dislike
- about the user-interface!
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- Have fun
- Sebastian Trueg (trueg@k3b.org)
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