[RndTbl] CD Writing and MP3's using RH 7.3 - Valhalla

[Gilbert E. Detillieux]

According to Gilles Detillieux:
> According to Mel Seder:
...
> > 1) Which app would you suggest I use for burning CD-R's?
> 
> I've been happy with gcombust.  I've tried XCDRoast and keasycd and found
> them lacking.  (That was over a year ago, mind you!)  I usually install
> the latest alpha releases of the cdrtools packages from the falsehope
> mirror on MUUG's server, along with their build of gcombust.  I've mostly
> used this only for data CDs, though, and not audio.  I used an older
> version of gcombust over a year ago to copy an audio CD directly from
> drive to drive, but several of the tracks it copied ended prematurely.
> I'd expect the more recent versions to be more reliable now, but I
> haven't pursued this further.  (Newer versions support cdparanoia,
> while the older one I used before didn't.)

The gtoaster package is included with Red Hat 7.2 and 7.3.  I haven't used
it myself, but one of our professors uses it and seems quite happy with it.

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