K3B – Free CD/DVD burning tool for KDE Linux
Posted on November 1, 2009 at 5:04 am
K3B is the official CD/DVD authoring tool for Linux KDE desktop. It allows you to create, burn, copy, CD’s and DVD’s. Create audio CD/DVD, Data discs perform disc-to-disc copies, it also includes a DVD ripping function.
To burn audio CD’s using K3B follow these simple steps. Click on the new audio CD project icon in the welcome screen of K3B.
Locate your music files using the K3B window browser then drag and drop the music files you want to burn in the current project window. Please take note that mp3 file is not supported by default. You need to install plug-in for mp3 to be able to burn them using K3B.
After you have completed adding your files, click he burn button to finalize you audio project start the burning process.
After completing the burning process your CD will eject and you should be able to see a message, Writing successfully completed
To create a data CD or DVD select new data project from the welcome window of K3B. Browse for the data file you want to burn then drag and drop the files in the current projects window then click burn.
To copy a disc select the copy CD option in the welcome window of K3B. Configure your CD copying procedure the next window and click start after you finish your configurations and settings.
Other functions are available by clicking the Further actions button. Other functions included are VCD and DVD project, Multisession project, CD/DVD eVomix project, Image file burning, CD/DVD erase and formatting, and audio/video CD/DVD ripping function.
From above we can see that it doesn’t support bootable disc burning, although it supports a wide array of burning projects. It allows over-burning which is essential if you downloaded AVI movies that exceed the 700Mb size. With drag and drop capability and support for multiple types of projects it rivals the commercial burning tools like Nero. Compared with the burning tool in Windows Explorer, K3B has the upper hand as it has more features and it’s free.
Ben Carigtan shows you how it’s done!
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I was playing with the kids and the wife wanted me to copy a DVD she wanted to give to her mom and I told her you do it.
She got to the computer and told her to click on the KDE button and type either dvd or burn in the box, it gave her the program.
She then just read the options and did it by herself (expect for when there was an option called Load).
She’s been using KDE 4.2/4.3 for the past 6-7 months and she managed to burn a dvd copy without even doing it before.
I think we can safely say that KDE4.3 is easy to use.
K3B is up there with Amarok, Gwenview, Digikam as must have programs on the KDE desktop.
Year 2 of our big switch (thanks Vista!) to KDE Linux and every new version makes me realize that we will never go back to Windows again.