[Kreatecd-devel] Today's thoughts on KreateCD

[Rivyn (C. S. <ri...@ma...>]

I've been making music CDs, and the process is so damn time consuming with
KreateCD it's rediculous.  I mean, it takes me 15 minutes to burn a CD, it
shouldn't take me 60 minutes to get the software ready.

Here's an example of what I want to do:

Destination:
Take 20 MP3 files and make an audio CD out of them.

Competition:
In adaptec, this takes me about 2 minutes.

Why This Product:
Because I refuse to use a lousy operating system and think that there ought to
be superior software for the superior operating system.

Currently:
I open all of the MP3 files in XMMS, go to it's options, select the disk writer
function, and convert them all to WAV files - using XMMS because there is no
KDE program to do this.
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I then start KreateCD - here we go.  Let's see, add track, edit track, select
track type, select file, click okay - well that wasn't too bad...oh what, I
have to go do it nineteen more times?  Aww man...
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half an hour later...
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*phew*, I think that's all, *looks over list*, hey, that's a data track, *fixes
it*...ok
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Create CD
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Hmm, it's not writing yet...it's converting the WAVs into something
else...that's odd, Adaptec never had to do this....hmm...
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ten minutes later...
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burning started.
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bout time

What I Want:
Open KreateCD, click a menuselection or toolbar button for audio CD
Open 20 MP3/WAV files at once or drag and drop from konqueror/kfm
Click Create CD.
Have the files converted from WAV/MP3 format into "cd audio format" on the fly,
as the CD is burning - have an adjustable buffer size for this.  Have an option
to preconvert for slow computers.  Go directly from MP3 to cd-audio format
without bothering with WAVs.
In general, make KreateCD a lot more automated.

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- Rivyn [ Casey Allen Shobe ]
- ri...@ma... [ UIN: 1494523 ]