Audio and Data CD burning

[Manuel Clos <llanero eresmas net>]

Hi all,

It seems that only Rhythmbox wants to provide CD burning support.

I'm currently porting Gnome CD Master to gtkmm2. Gcdmaster only does 
Audio CDs at the moment, and does not support mp3/ogg.

The plan for gcdmaster is to use cddb-slave2 to get info about the CDs, 
so it seems that cddb-slave2 consolidates as the cddb object. I would 
like to know where it finally will be included (gnome-media or 
monkey-media).

I would like to use gstreamer for audio playback, this is, when you dump 
a CD to disk and you get a big .bin file and a .toc file. So I supose 
you can pass the audio stream to gstreamer and get it played. When doing 
compilations from mp3/ogg, they must be decompressed first, then apply 
any change that the .toc files specifies and finally get it played with 
gstreamer. I have seen comments about monkey-media easing this, so I'm 
asking for advice here.

How will RB implement the burning? I would like to reuse that code. 
Gcdmaster only uses cdrdao now. It uses the cdrdao trackdb library so it 
can read/write .toc files transparently. Will RB be able to save a list 
of wav/mp3/ogg for later editing? will use a new format or .toc, .cue, ...??

For the mp3 CD, it means creating a iso image, this is, mkisofs and 
cdrecord. Will it handle the programs directly? trhough a bonobo object? 
in which format will the list be saved so it can be edited later?

Will RB evolve into a full CD burning app?

After I finish the gtkmm2 port of gcdmaster, I would like to implement 
much of this stuff. I want to reuse as much code as posible, and avoid 
duplication of effort.

--
Manuel Clos
llanero eresmas net

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