[Kreatecd-devel] Re: KreateCD

[Keith R. <Kei...@ea...>]

Dear Alexander,

I have been trying out the recent mods to kreatecd on my home machine
and have a couple of comments.

Firstly the CVS head would not compile because of the half-finished
Ogg Vorbis and plugin stuff.  I checked out the version dated July 16,
which seems to compile consistently.  Might I suggest that you add a
CVS tag for "finished" development snapshots known to compile and
work.  This would help a lot with testing.  Such tags can even be
added retrospectively.

Secondly, my first task was to copy an audio CD.  This does not
exactly test the on-the-fly stuff since I only have one CD drive and
use it as both a reader and writer.  On the previous development
snapshot I could do the copy using the "Audio Only" mode by selecting
the menu item copy, whereupon hitting the "write CD" button would read
all the tracks.  There was a chance later to open the drive and insert
a blank.

This no longer works and the only way I found to do the copy was the
painful method of "Update Track" one at a time.  The new copy CD mode
did not appear to do anything useful in these circumstances either.

I presume the copy mode is based on the assumption that there is a
separate CD reader and writer, but please don't forget configurations
with just the one.

Keith Refson

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