Burncenter 3
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What is this ?
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burncenter <3 was a simple shell script, frontend to cdrecord/mkisofs/cdda2wav.
burncenter >=3 is a Perl module (Burncenter.pm) and a collection of frontends for this module.


Intended audience
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* Users wanting to automate process of burning, copying CDs.
* Perl developers wanting to create a custom CD-burning program, without reinventing the wheel.


Installation
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. Get SVN or tarball
. Go into the directory where burncenter3 is unpacked
. Type ./install


Configuration
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. When you launch burncenter for the first time, it will detect that no configuration has be done and will ask you the right questions.
. If you feel you have done an error, you can choose the "Reconfigure" option in the menu.

Features
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 * Modular Perl design
 * Creation of multi and single sessions data CD
 * Creation of audio CDs, from WAV, MP3 or OGG files or from a playlist
 * Copy of Data and Audio CDs
 * CDRW support of blanking disc
 * non-interactive frontend (useful for scripts)


Contact
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Email: alex14fr@yahoo.fr
Web: http://alex14.home.dyndns.org/burncenter/


Requirements
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Required:

. An IDE, SCSI, USB CD-Writer supported by cdrecord and your Operating System
. An UNIX-like Operating System (currently tested on GNU/Linux)
. cdrecord/mkisofs (both included in the same source package named cdrtools), available at http://www.cdrecord.org
. perl version 5 (I develop burncenter using 5.6.1)
. A bourne-compatible shell (I use GNU bash)

Recommended:

. cdda2wav, to copy audio CDs (available in the source package cdrtools, like cdrecord and mkisofs)
. mpg123 to burn audio CDs from MP3 files (http://www.mpg123.de)
. ogg-vorbis tools to burn audio CDs from OGG files (http://www.xiph.org/ogg/)
. normalize to burn audio CDs with normalized sound (http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~cvaill/normalize/)


See Also
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 USERS-GUIDE         -- If you simply want to use menu frontend
 DEVELOP-FRONTENDS   -- If you are a developper


