Brasero Vs K3B witch is best and why?

[sadaruwan12]

I'm just having this post to find out witch burner is better and why? I'm doing a small project for my DipInIT and CD burning software is my category so I really value your input.

Thank you so much in advance.

[Synthros]

In my experience, K3B has been the way to go. Brasero gave me a bunch of problems -- error messages, 'successful' burns that wrote nothing to the CD-R, and so forth.

With K3B, I only ran into an easily fixable permissions issue when I first started using it. Other than that, it has worked pretty smoothly for me.

[chucky chuckaluck]

brasero's pretty good, but i just think k3b is better. i like the flow of the ui better and i've never had an issue with it. there also seems to be nothing it can't do.

[James_Lochhead]

K3B at the moment, simply because it has more features like dual layer DVD burning.

I think Brasero is going to catch up and overtake K3B eventually though.

[Tibuda]

Brasero. Keep it simple stupid.

[notwen]

brasero's pretty good, but i just think k3b is better. i like the flow of the ui better and i've never had an issue with it. there also seems to be nothing it can't do.

Ditto, for the time being. Brasero seems to be improving a lot w/ it's past few releases.

[Bart_D]

Brasero.

Never gave me trouble.

Brasero For The Winner

[Swagman]

Witch ?

Going Pagan are we ?

[Eisenwinter]

I haven't used brasero very much (maybe like... 5 times?), so I have to say k3b in this case.

[Dragonbite]

I'm just having this post to find out witch burner is better and why?

I don't think there are many job opportunities for witch burners these days! :lolflag:

[sydbat]

I understand wood covered in some type of accelerant is best for burning witches.

As for burning CD's, I use whichever one is best for the job...simple burns Brassero or GnomeBaker...more complex K3B...

[Sunflower1970]

I use both. K3B most of the time, but on my oldest system, I use Brasero. It seems to be lighter on resources.

I voted for K3B though. More options, and DL burning

[espiral]

K3B>

To be honest a no brainer but this is a Gnome centric forum so Brasero will probably win and that is scandalous and just plain wrong. lol

[Icehuck]

I use K3B because it's never made a coaster.

[meeples]

i cant use brasero anymore becoz nautilus keeps crashing when i put a cd in the drive and brasero and nautilus are like best buddies now so i cant use it, but K3b works amazingly :)

[NightwishFan]

i cant use brasero anymore becoz nautilus keeps crashing when i put a cd in the drive and brasero and nautilus are like best buddies now so i cant use it, but K3b works amazingly :)

That should not happen. Perhaps you should make another thread and ask for assistance.

It is a toughy. The new Brasero is excellent. It is simple, stable, and offers media previews. K3b is full featured, yet sometimes is very hacky, especially with audio CD ripping/burning.

[Dragonbite]

I just go with whatever comes with the installation(Gnome=Brasero, KDE=k3B)

[sadaruwan12]

It's seems like both are neck and neck at this time. Now it's enough of this poll better to close this and leave it and I like to thank you every one who took part in this thank you very much.

SORRY FOR THE MY SPELLING MISTAKE *WITCH* IT HAVE TO BE WHICH SORRY AGAINE

[days_of_ruin]

which!!

[Swagman]

AGAIN

hehe

[JohnFH]

Can K3B be installed in Gnome without including a whole host of KDE libraries that I don't want?

[NightwishFan]

Can K3B be installed in Gnome without including a whole host of KDE libraries that I don't want?

You would have to check the dependencies of the package. It should not be too many, considering it is a kde 3.5 program.

[JohnFH]

I voted for K3B though. More options, and DL burning

Brasero has supported DL since May last year, no?

See revision 809 in the Brasero change log:
http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/brasero/branches/gnome-2-26/ChangeLog?view=log

[sadaruwan12]

Did it again it WHICH

[SuperSonic4]

K3B not only because I use KDE but I've had no issues with it and it does more: I can easily created a custom ISO from /var/cache/pacman/pkg/* and use it as a backup for installing programs. Plus it rips CDs too and has the option to create a cue file for easy burning back to a disc :]

hmm 32 v 31 isn't back for a largely GNOME forum

[Dragonbite]

One advantage K3B has is that it has been around for quite a while as the "standard" for burning in KDE while Brasero is a little newer in Gnome. Wasn't it Gnome Baker before and something else before that?

[NightwishFan]

Nautilus CD Burner and Serpantine was what I always used. For anything advanced I used wodim.

[infoseeker]

I haven't used Brasero yet, as I use KDE.

While on the subject, will Brasero work ok under KDE 4.2.2? This topic has pricked my interest in trying Brasero one day.

[NightwishFan]

It should work fine in KDE, and follow your Qt color scheme.

[BrokenKingpin]

K3B... Brasero on Ubuntu 8.10 was slow as hell because of some checksum thing it was trying to do. I also hated for another reason I cannot remember. I am not on Kubuntu 9.04, so I will stick with K3B. I will give Brasero a try if/when I move back to Gnome (or K3B starts to suck).

[0per4t0r]

I don't think there are many job opportunities for witch burners these days! :lolflag:
oh, there's always reniassance fairs.

[MScapee]

Someone actually considered Brasero to be stable?!!! :lolflag: Brasero is so bad, I almost considered installing K3B myself but as I've got a weak stomach when it comes to ugly, I installed xfburn instead. Haven't had a lick of trouble since. Plus, xfburn is much faster than "coaster creator" and yes, it's "Gnome friendly" also. Hey, I'm a happy camper.

[misfitpierce]

I like Brasero over all burning software, its so simple gui wise and nicely setup. Very simple and fast to get to what you want and need. Brasero in my opinion is def. the way to go!

[Bigtime_Scrub]

K3B>

To be honest a no brainer but this is a Gnome centric forum so Brasero will probably win and that is scandalous and just plain wrong. lol

I don't even think Brasero is better than Gnomebaker so I voted k3b.

k3b has a lot of great features you don't get on Brasero like dual layer burning. Plus, to be honest and blunt, Brasero screws up a lot of my burns. If I have an iso file for another distro I want to burn, or if it requires a precise burning, Brasero usually fails for me. k3b does it right the first time and every time. Brasero also does this weird check sum before AND after the burn finishes and then it crashes. It might have burned correctly after that or not, who knows until you try? I don't like Brasero at all :( I really don't get why Ubuntu uses it as default, there are other Gnome options.

[khelben1979]

I just prefer K3b (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K3b) if I had to choose.

[AlphaMack]

I had to go with K3B simply because Brasero gives me plenty of coasters.

If it were in the poll, Nero would be the best as it can do verification without issues.

[kpkeerthi]

I use Brasero not because it is better but only because I use GNOME. K3B is much better than Brasero.

[Viva]

huh, I don't burn any more.

[starcannon]

I use Nero Linux on my main machine; away from home, I use Brasero. I don't think Brasero is better, its "just there" so I use it out of convenience.

[koleoptero]

Brasero is better cause I use it. :P

[NightwishFan]

Brasero is improving along the correct lines for its type of application. The interface is very usable. I only wish they would give you more control over the burning speed. Also, it lacks some pretty simple to add and easy to understand options currently.

[northwestuntu]

brasero just doesn't cut it for ubuntu. so it's nero linux for me.

[starcraft.man]

Brasero blows. Pretty much every time I ever used it. If ya wanted a good comparison, should have put GnomeBaker up against K3B. I'd still likely vote k3b, awesome app. Out of all the disc authoring software I used over the years, I prefer k3b.

[Excedio]

Everyone keeps saying that they get coasters when they use Brasero but I have yet to make a coaster. I have never had a problem with Brasero, its been flawless for me since day one.

I've burned roughly 1000 discs...

[NightwishFan]

It may be their disc drive as well. I have had some odd problems with K3b and Brasero. Usually when I try to manually blank discs.

[Hated On Mostly]

The problem with Brasero and K3B is they use buggy, non-updated open source tools to handle burning.

wodim is buggy and is the cause of many of Brasero's random disc problems. Last update for wodim was 2008/10/26. Look at the last updates for dvd+rw-tools and other open source tools, old and outdated, but certainly not bug-free. With NeroLinux, 100% of discs burn properly and erase properly. That percentage significantly decreases when I use Brasero or K3B. Problems occur on a number of different drives and discs. Absolutely no problems when I use NeroLinux

I will have to try out xfburn, looking at the dependencies it doesn't seem to use the same buggy tools that Brasero and K3B use.

[dioltas]

Has to be k3b. It's a great program. And I used to always use Gnome, so I'm not biased...

[capverz]

:)

K3B = rock solid, perfect UI and does what is asked wihout fail in my experience.


Brasero = good but is the only burner I have has problems with, I just like k3b

[thisllub]

I use wodim from the command line for burning isos but k3b is a fully featured application, I don't really know how to describe brasero.

[jimasbille]

I know I'm late to the party. I have moved to Ubuntu and Gnome from OpenSuse and KDE. I love Gnome and most of its apps but I still prefer K3b and Amarok. If Brasero improves I may move because Gnome apps seem lighter on resources but K3b really has the features. Same with Amarok.

[ghostborg]

I have never been able to figure out why Brasero makes coasters for me. NeroLinux3 and K3b and every other app I've tried works but not Brasero.
Makes coasters on two systems, different hardware, one newer and one older.
Go figure. Just would like to know why.

[cityrama]

K3B by a country mile, one of the first things I do after a gnome install is to put K3B on it.

[SomeGuyDude]

Hate K3B's UI, but it WORKS. I've had so many disc errors with Brasero it's outrageous.

[toopi]

K3B all the way. Every time I gave a chance to Brasero, it failed miserably most of the times. Yes, it was with different drives and CDs/DVDs.

[anonymous_user]

K3b hands down. It offers more features; particularly a working verify function for data CDs.

[Dragonbite]

Brasero burned my DVD just fine.

[Intrepid Ibex]

K3b, I just prefer it. Brasero is still good though.

[Exodist]

BraZERO is is horrible. Gnome baker is even better.
Over all I always liked K3B. Its the most versatile Media Application out there. Its not just a CD/DVD burning program! Its a shame there isnt one as complete and dependable for GTK.

[FuturePilot]

I'm still going to have to say K3B. I thought maybe after a couple years Brasero would have improved in quality, but sadly it hasn't. I tried to make a 1 to 1 direct copy of a CD with Brasero and it completely and utterly failed. And with a not so helpful error message too. Tried the same thing with K3B and it worked perfectly. That's not the first time Brasero has completely failed at doing something pretty simple. Last time it completely failed at simply burning an ISO image to a DVD. :evil:

[Exodist]

I'm still going to have to say K3B. I thought maybe after a couple years Brasero would have improved in quality, but sadly it hasn't. I tried to make a 1 to 1 direct copy of a CD with Brasero and it completely and utterly failed. And with a not so helpful error message too. Tried the same thing with K3B and it worked perfectly. That's not the first time Brasero has completely failed at doing something pretty simple. Last time it completely failed at simply burning an ISO image to a DVD. :evil:
Burning a ISO to DVD with Brazero seems to fail 9 out of 10 times with me even running it as root and double checking the MD5SUMs.

[XubuRoxMySox]

Another vote for k3b. Brasero has been on-again, off-again at random. I never know if it's going to work or make another coaster. K3b has been completely reliable every time, whether the project is data or image or music.

-Robin

[handy]

K3B worked fine for me until I started burning lots of disks in a row, then I get failures that sneak through verify & I didn't find out until later that such was the case.

I've tried multiple burners & on different distros, & they all give me trouble, especially when around 10 or more disks are burned in a row? Same results on two different machines using Pioneer & Sony burners?

So I use NeroLinux 3.5 (can't see me upgrading to v4.* as the version I'm using does much more than I need), Nero has thus far never failed me. Thankfully it is cheap to buy for Linux.

[insane_alien]

i like brasero, it hasn't failed me yet(except when i put a dodgy disk in, but thats not really a fault of software.)

[hero1900]

i do give my vote to K3B more features and good looking

[arnab_das]

K3B hands down. supports verification of burning (so u know if u have a new coaster or a CD/DVD :P ) and has loads of options really. brasero looks good on gnome, perfectly blends with the interface, but i still use k3b in ubuntu coz it performs better.

mind u even k3b has bugs. k3b somehow auto ejects the CD/DVD after burning even before the verification starts. hence i had to de-select the auto eject option. now of course it works fine for me.

[kio_http]

K3b has never every spoilt a DVD or CD. Brasero and Windows Disk Burning tool have though.

[squilookle]

Brassero is fine - nice and simple, works with no problems, and perfect if you want to quickly throw something onto a cd with no fuss.

K3b is great for more advanced stuff, and I used to use it for making audio cd's because you could put hidden tracks in, which is cool.

K3b was the first linux cd burner I used, but I'm currently using Brassero, mainly becxause I'm on the gnome desktop now.

[Nevon]

I don't know if I've posted in this thread before, but here we go anyway.

I do love the look of Brasero, and I feel like I WANT to use it. It's just that I've had so many failed burns with it over the years that I just don't want to risk getting another coaster - and so I use K3B. For most burn jobs Brasero seems fine, but if I'm going to do something even slightly advanced, I'm going to go with K3B (or growisofs straight from the terminal).

The UI team in charge of K3B really needs to take some advice from the Brasero people though. The layout of information in K3B really is horrid. I suppose it's from the days of KDE 3.X, where every single pixel needs to show some kind of information or tool.

[Intrepid Ibex]

ImgBurn. I actually had a while ago an experience where Brasero wouldn't recognize my DVD drive, XFBurn didn't have support for erasing my DVD-RW, K3B couldn't erase the disk well enough and therefore write the .iso succesfully afterwards so I decided to try ImgBurn through wine.

I was like "are you friggin' kiddin' me?" when I heard the "TITUDI-TITUDI-TITTUDITTI-TITUDI-DITTI-TITTI" finishing tune which means that the write was successful. Oh well... :D.

[ratcheer]

I did not vote. I have never had any problem with Brasero, but I have not yet tried k3b. :-|

Tim

[sudoer541]

I like Nero!
its the only burner that works for me.

[Arthur_D]

K3b, because it supports burning to dual-layered DVD's, and because Brasero crashes sometimes when messing with file order.

[koleoptero]

Xfburn. It's like k3b written in gtk.

[toupeiro]

I think brasero can be bulletproof simple for making CD copies, but it falls short on DVD authoring. For this, I am a fan of K3B, and since I hate having redundant apps, I just use K3B.

[ETbluez]

k3b is best plus you get Oxygen icons with it.

[uRock]

K3b doesn't stand up to Brasero. Who cares what they look like, Brasero works.

[BigSilly]

K3b for me. Brasero always gives me errors and coasters.

[Khakilang]

I haven't use both of them but I read from a magazine that K3B is much better.

[litemirrors]

Unfortunately for Linux I can only suggest ImgBurn for burning CDs/DVDs because it's simply better than any alternative I've found, to bad it's Windows only.

[uRock]

Unfortunately for Linux I can only suggest ImgBurn for burning CDs/DVDs because it's simply better than any alternative I've found, to bad it's Windows only.

Yup, +1.

[Dragonbite]

Neither.. I plop them onto a USB stick and use that instead.

[uRock]

Neither.. I plop them onto a USB stick and use that instead.

I don't have USB on my car dash. :)

[Dragonbite]

I don't have USB on my car dash. :)

Yet ;) Give them time and they'll start installing them. Although by the time they get around to that everything will be transfered by bluetooth or something and they'll still be behind.

[uRock]

Yet ;) Give them time and they'll start installing them. Although by the time they get around to that everything will be transfered by bluetooth or something and they'll still be behind.

I can see the blue tooth happening first. In the past 6 months, the only CD/DVDs I have burnt are backups and different LiveCDs. Cause my car does have the plug for an MP3 and a guitar.

[ssj6akshat]

K3B because it has got more features than Brasero though brasero seems to catch on....

[airplus]

With all due respect but Brasero is an useless toy

I am still trying to burn a simple TS_VIDEO folder to watch in my DVD player using Brasero, there is a thread for this error. I had to log back into XP to use Nero until I knew about k3b!!

Thanks to the k3b developers for releasing a solid, complete program! \\:D/

[jerenept]

K3B seems to me to be a much more polished program, with more advanced options, but Brasero keeps it simple and is more than enough for anyone.

[gnomeuser]

Brasero has a neat feature I discovered when I started my project to backup all my movies to ISO files. If the DVD is protected by css it will automatically complain if the decoder which shall not be mentioned for legal reasons isn't installed. If it is however it will calculate the keys and correctly produce a working ISO file from the DVD.

I really love this feature, it makes everything much easier. Backing up my movies is now literally just right clicking the DVD and voila.

It is now very well integrated and feature rich, it earns my vote though for just working with absolutely minimal fuss while being elegant in use and implementation.

[Hman242]

I use Gnome but I would have to go with K3B on this one. Brasero gave me many problems, sometimes when I blanked a disc it would become unreadable. I've ruined 15+ discs easily. I don't have K3B or any KDE app however because I don't want to install dependencies. Anyone know of a good disc burning app that doesn't depend on such things?

[Dragonbite]

Brasero has been burning Linux ISOs (CD and DVD) for me without any issues so far.

[julio_cortez]

Well, none of the two really got me 100% satisfied. They're both good programs but they both have their issues.

K3b is perfect apart from the fact that when I load a list of songs for it to burn an Audio CD and then decide to move a song in the CD (for example from pos 3 to pos 6) it COPIES it instead of moving it.
I haven't been able to prevent this behaviour yet. Maybe there's an option that allows songs to be moved instead of copied but I didn't find it out.

Brasero just seems not to like CD Text (see here (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1481900)) and, just for that, I prefer K3b.

[98cwitr]

i really prefer k3b over brasero...better results, more consistency, better interface.

[screaminj3sus]

Brasero is buggy for me, it cant automatically eject my cddrive tray :/

[Gias Kay]

Many GNOME applications are catching up in great spead with KDE ones recently, like Exaile vs. Amarok, but unfortunately IMHO Brasero is yet to be one amongst them. Especially when a failed action will cost you real money in addition to time, one would want to consider using K3B as your default burner at least for now.

[XubuRoxMySox]

Xfburn works great for me. Brasero was hit-or-miss, frequently making coasters. K3B was awesome but has all those QT dependencies (which I guess doesn't matter if you have plenty of disk space to store them). But so far Xfburn hasn't failed me even once, it has a super-easy interface, and it doesn't pull in so many dependencies when installed in Ubuntu/Xubuntu.

[medic2000]

I use Xfce and Xfburn does my work greatly. If it doesn't the console utilities does.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CD_Burning
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DVD_Writing

[Sef]

Moved to Recurring Discussions because Which <fill in> is best is what the this forum title implies.

[Chame_Wizard]

K3B rocks.:lolflag:

[WinterRain]

K3B has almost never failed me. Solid app.