What is Your Favorite Linux Disc Burner?

A Disc burning software is one of the essentials for a normal PC. For Windows, the most famous disk burner is Nero. Nero also have a Linux version. But, Nero is not that famous in Linux! Why should we pay for Nero when we have free disk burners for Linux? So, Today we are going to talk about the 2 most famous disk burning software for Linux!

Brasero Disc Burner

Brasero Disc Burner

Data CD/DVD:

• supports edition of discs contents (remove/move/rename files inside directories)
• can burn data CD/DVD on the fly
• automatic filtering for unwanted files (hidden files, broken/recursive symlinks, files not conforming to joliet standard, …)
• supports multisession
• supports joliet extension
• can write the image to the hard drive
• can check disc file integrity

Audio CD:

• write CD-TEXT information (automatically found thanks to gstreamer)
• supports the edition of CD-TEXT information
• can burn audio CD on the fly
• can use all audio files handled by Gstreamer local installation (ogg, flac, mp3, …)
• can search for audio files inside dropped folders
• full edition of silences between tracks

CD/DVD copy:

• can copy a CD/DVD to the hard drive
• can copy CD and DVD on the fly
• supports single-session data DVD
• supports any kind of CD

K3B

K3B

• Creating data cds:
• Creating audio cds:
• Creating Video CDs:
• Creating mixed-mode CDs:
• Creating eMovix CDs
• CD Copy
• DVD burning:
• CD Ripping:
• DVD Ripping and DivX/XviD encoding
• Save/load projects.
• Blanking of CDR-Ws.
• Retrieving Table of contents and cdr information.
• Writing existing iso images to CD or DVD with optional verification of the written data.
• Writing cue/bin files created for CDRWIN
• DVD copy (no video transcoding yet)
• Enhanced CD device handling:
• KParts-Plugin ready.

Conclusion :

In Linux, mainly we have two desktop environments, KDE and Gnome. Brasero Disc Burner is built for Gnome systems, and K3B is built for KDE systems (But if you want you can use them in both environments). Actually K3B is having a bit more features than its competitor, but Brasero Disc Burner is much more suitable for your Gnome environment. In my system (I use gnome) I have both of them.

When we talk about functionality, K3B have more features than the other, but for people who have only the basic needs, Brasero Disc Burner is the best choice.

So, you need to choose your disk burner based on your desktop environment and what you need to do with it! Now, what is your choice? Do you have another disk burner which you think will be more suitable?