On Sunday 24 July 2005 21:46, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 22:22 +0300, Romeo Ninov wrote:
IMHO k3b is the best, don't search for alternative :-)
K3b uses logical block records (and rewrites for MO media like CD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, etc...). While this is easiest, it's not always the most compatible. I.e., it's typically more than adequate for data, if that's what you want it for. But if you're looking for the utmost player compatibility, you don't want to use logical block writes.
Ok, again, stop.
Does this answer the original poster's question? He wants to write CD's; hearing the excess information about DVD's doesn't help him. Why is it so hard to simply 'help' the original poster?
Last I checked, k3b for writing CD's uses CDRecord. Since the OP's question was about CD's and not DVD's, the whole packet of information about DVD's was extraneous and superfluous.
I use K3B on a WhiteBox 3 machine; since I do use it to write data DVD's I had to build a later growisofs for it, but for the CD recording side I have had zero problems in over 1,000 CD's burnt, both audio and data. As the drive I have doesn't support DAO recording, I have it set to do TAO, which seems to work just fine with every CD player I've tried the disc's in.
So, to answer the original question, K3B (of a recent version) works fine on a RHEL3-derived system for burning audio CD's, assuming you have a good burner.
On my particular system I also have to make sure I run k3b as root; otherwise the drive doesn't show up (since it is not the only CD drive in the system, and since it uses ide-scsi (remember, CentOS3/WhiteBox 3/RHEL3 are 2.4 kernel) the system gets a little confused).