Copying with Brasero requires cdrdao - already there

[giodemon]

gracias realmente funciona

[JamButty]

Another bit that is confusing. OP states the error is
"All required applications and libraries are not installed. Please install manually and try again:
toc2cue (application)
cdrdao (application)"
Which is correct - that is still the error Brasero gives, but in addition to the problem of the missing 1.2.3 version of cdrdao (yes, it worked for me too), the other application is actually
cue2toc, NOT toc2cue as the error states.

For me another issue with this is that the default image type is the TOC/BIN combination rather that the more commonly used ISO. Needing to dig into the properties to get to this rather than having ISO as the default is puzzling.

Another issue with Brasero is it's "windows compatibility" file naming bits. Seems to be stuck in a reference to 20 year old MS systems - there has been no compatibility issues I know of for at least 10 years. Referring to the most archaic common denominator is not really needed. Further - if you choose to not "make it compatible" it DOES make it compatible with MS systems of 20 years ago (8 char filenames). If you choose to "make it compatible", it does not seem to change any filenames, though occasionally it will bomb out claiming it could not change some filenames, but never displays any of the filenames that are supposedly the problem and leaving the user to make guesses. Not an insurmountable problem, just irritating.

As long as I am sounding off on TOC/BIN/ISO, let me put in a plug for AcetoneISO, a gui for various operations on such files. I tried many commands suggested on various pages for mounting/unmounting ISOs, also full scripts that supposedly added these options to the Nautilus GUI, but none of them worked. AcetoneISO works for dummies like me.

No issues to solve - just info. Thread still "solved"

[Objekt]

cdemu is also pretty darn good for mounting CD/DVD images. It's sort of an Ubuntu equivalent to Daemon Tools in Windows, only it doesn't try to sucker you into installing a useless browser toolbar.

cdemu can handle Blu-ray images, which is handy for those of us who don't have a Blu-ray drive.

Anyway, more on topic, I can now use Brasero to rip audio CDs to images. I had the previously discovered errors. Finally got Brasero ripping audio CD's by:

1) installing the packages it asked for (cue2toc & cdrdao) by hand through Synaptic;
2) upgrading cdrdao to version 1.2.3 by adding the author's ppa, as detailed on an earlier page of this thread.

Note that I'm running the 32-bit flavor of Ubuntu 10.04, not that it should matter.

It seems a bit inelegant that an audio CD has to be imaged into 2 separate files, one with the raw data and one showing where the tracks begin and end. Has someone devised a single-file image format for audio CD's in the meantime?

[Mike_tn]

This link has a AMD64 version. Just download it directly, or add the PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~renbag/+archive/ppa/+packages

Running 64bit Maverick. Wonder if this works? It's labeled Lucid at the PPA site. Do I have to waste a disk possibly or does anyone know? There is one other Maverick package there. Perhaps not supported yet.

[Mike_tn]

SOLVED

removed Brasero and added K3b

[inameiname]

Well, Mike_tn, there is a Maverick version of Renbag's ppa, but there isn't a Brasero fix there. Though, do you have issues with Brasero on Maverick? I found the problem that Renbag's Lucid ppa fixed in Lucid isn't there for me to deal with in Maverick.

[Mike_tn]

Well, Mike_tn, there is a Maverick version of Renbag's ppa, but there isn't a Brasero fix there. Though, do you have issues with Brasero on Maverick? I found the problem that Renbag's Lucid ppa fixed in Lucid isn't there for me to deal with in Maverick.

inameiname, I only had definite issues with Brasero iso burn failures in Lucid. I never tried Maverick except to burn an APTonCD iso that seemed to burn OK however it was a bad test because I think the APTonCD application is quite temperamental at least for myself. So I didn't give Brasero a fair test on Maverick.

I've had so many burners I hated over the years, I wanted to avoid the headaches of trial and error. Brasero may be fine in Maverick but the forums I located didn't have anything good to say. In the forums they talked of Brasero not being fixed with the new release, the posted comments had current dates.

Comparing the GUIs to burn ISOs in the two, K3b seemed more advanced. I didn't do a huge comparison. At first look it reminded me of the difference between Gnome Commander and Krusader of which Gnome Commander is no match whatsoever for, so I decided to use K3b. Burning ISOs for music or data is no easy job. Even if the app can burn a disc, results can be flawed. A burner needs a good long standing reputation. Already removed Brasero so I can't glance at it now. My decision to do the burner switch was not based on thorough and recent testing by myself....more by first looks & hearsay.

[Swagman]

SOLVED

removed Brasero and added K3b

Hows Normalise work for you in K3B ?

[Mike_tn]

Hows Normalise work for you in K3B ?

I saw the "normalize-audio" add-on in the Software Center but elected not to add it. I only would use it for compilation music CD which I never make. And the few I once made I never listen to. If that button on other software is unknowingly selected and I find out later, after burning a bunch of discs, well let me say...livid would describe me. So I thought it was cool that I could in effect uninstall that feature. I can see how it would be good for making your own greatest hits volumes. I always listen to full albums.

Did you have problems with it not doing its job?

[Swagman]

I saw the "normalize-audio" add-on in the Software Center but elected not to add it. I only would use it for compilation music CD which I never make. And the few I once made I never listen to. If that button on other software is unknowingly selected and I find out later, after burning a bunch of discs, well let me say...livid would describe me. So I thought it was cool that I could in effect uninstall that feature. I can see how it would be good for making your own greatest hits volumes. I always listen to full albums.

Did you have problems with it not doing its job?

paul@pauls-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install normalize-audio
[sudo] password for paul: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
normalize-audio is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
paul@pauls-desktop:~$

If (you can be bothered) you goggle it there is quite a bit about it but no copy & paste this cure.


Just the usual "Secret handshake whilst standing on one leg, nudge nudge, wink wink" hints.


After googling for eleventy million hours I ended up firing up Brasero and dragging over my burn list into it. Normalize-Audio worked in Brasero no probs.