Re: [Kreatecd-devel] Re: KreateCD

[Alexander F. <Ale...@gm...>]

On Monday, 23. July 2001 14:04, Keith Refson wrote:
> 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.
>

Actually the kreatecd cvs snapshot should compile most of the time and you 
might have hit one of the ones which make real problems. The ogg vorbis 
problem should be fixed now - if not, it is definitly a bug.

> 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.  

So you cannot use on-the-fly to copy an audio CD at all. Kreatecd has to read 
and write at the same time.

> 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.
>

Oh I see. The creation of temporary images was delayed to the point just 
before writing due to popular demand and due to the on the fly changes. I 
think we will have to add I dialog to insert the CD-R if you are in 
single-drive mode. We should be able to detect this if CD-R and CD-ROM is the 
same SCSI device.

> 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.
>

Did you try to let the first try fail and insert the CD-R, then burn it a 
second time. This should be a workaround until we have a "insert-the-cd-r" 
dialog.

> 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.
>

I just didn't have the "single-drive" usage in mind. The dialog should fix 
that - thanks for reporting this before the next stable release :)

Alexander