K3b

Some of K3b's main features include:

• Data CD/DVD burning;
• Audio CD burning;
• CD-Text support;
• Blu-ray[10]/DVD-R/DVD+R/DVD-RW/DVD+RW support;
• CD-R/CD-RW support;
• Mixed Mode CD (CD-DA and -ROM on one disc);
• Multisession CD;
• Video CD/Video DVD authoring;
• eMovix CD/eMovix DVD;
• Disk-to-disk CD and DVD copying;
• Erasing Rewritable discs;
• ISO image support;
• Ripping Audio CDs, Video CDs, Video DVDs.

K3b can also burn data CDs that support Linux/Unix based OS, Windows, DOS, Very Large Files (UDF), Linux/Unix + Windows, Rock Ridge, and Joliet file systems.

K3b's full list of features (the below list could be still incomplete):

• Creating data CDs:
  • Add files and folders to data CD project via drag and drop;
  • Remove files from your project, move files within your project;
  • Create empty directories 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 within the 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 multiple El-Torito boot images;
  • Multisession support.
• Creating audio CDs:
  • Pluggable audio decoding. Plugins for WAV, mp3, FLAC, and Ogg Vorbis are included;
  • CD-Text support. Will automagically be filled in from tags in audio files;
  • Write audio CDs on-the-fly, without decoding audio files to wav before;
  • Normalize volume levels before writing;
  • Cut audio tracks at the beginning and the end.
• Creating Video CDs:
  • VCD 1.1, 2.0, SVCD;
  • CD-i support (Version 4).
• Creating mixed-mode CDs:
  • CD-Extra (CD-Plus, Enhanced Audio CD) support;
  • All data and audio project features.
• Creating eMovix CDs.
• 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 Burning:
  • Support for DVD-R(W) and DVD+R(W);
  • Creating data DVD projects;
  • Creating eMovix DVDs;
  • Formatting DVD-RWs and DVD+RWs.
• CD Ripping:
  • CDDB support via http, cddbp and local cddb directory;
  • Sophisticated pattern system to automatically organize the ripped tracks in directories and name them according to album, title, artist, and track number;
  • CD-Text reading. May be used instead of CDDB info;
  • K3b stores CDDB info of the ripped tracks which will automatically be used as CD-Text when adding the ripped files to an audio project;
  • Plugin system to allow encoding to virtually every audio format. Plugins to encode to Ogg Vorbis, mp3, FLAC, and all formats supported by SoX included.
• DVD Ripping and DivX/XviD encoding.
• Save/load projects.
• Blanking of CD-RWs.
• Retrieving Table of contents and cdr information.
• Writing existing iso images to CD or DVD with optional verification of the written data.
• Writing cue/bin files created for CDRWIN.
• DVD copy (no video transcoding yet).
• Enhanced CD device handling:
  • Detection of maximal writing and reading speed.
  • Detection of Burnfree and Justlink support.
  • Good media detection and optional automatic CD-RW and DVD-RW blanking.
• KParts-Plugin ready.

• List of optical disc authoring software
• Brasero, a GTK+ optical disc authoring program.

• K3b website
• Bug tracker