News:

Note:

The currently used CDDB-Lookup service freedb.org was shut down at March 31, 2020. (See here).
There is an alternative server available, you can configure this in the X-CD-Roast Setup:



Known bugs:

I created a patches section which contains fixes for recently found problems in the latest release.

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Installation of precompiled packages:

NEW: For Ubuntu/Debian-Systems see here.
• Added Package for Ubuntu Focal 20.04 (18.06.2020)

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11.11.2018: X-CD-Roast 1.19 released!

Whats new:
• allow to set custom input/output charsets in the ISO9660 options.
• support for the ALSA sound driver on Linux.
• a lot of bug fixes.

See the changelog for a complete list of changes.

Further updated files:

• README
• FAQ
• the manpage
• translation status

A most recent release of the cdrtools is required. Minimum release is cdrtools-3.02a09 or later.

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Thanks:

Special thanks to Mathias Büttner for lots of input, patches, testing and motivation to work on an updated version of X-CD-Roast.

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Call for translation-maintainers:

As you know its very easy to add support for new languages in X-CD-Roast. All I need is a reliable person for each language which can do the job. If you think you have some extra time you want to contribute to the X-CD-Roast project and want your language supported, please contact me.

Please check the translation status page for a list of current translations and their maintainers.

See the file TRANSLATION.HOWTO included with the source code for details.

Overview:

What is X-CD-Roast?

Features included in new version 1.19:

• Portable - runs on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, HPUX, Irix, AIX ...
  Note: The current version was only developed and tested on Linux systems.
• Multi langual - translations available in 31 languages
• Graphical setup
• Graphical wav-player
• Fully themeable via GTK-Themes
• Tooltip help
• Copies Data, Audio, Mixed-Modes
• Creates Data, Audio, Mixed-Mode, Multisession
• Bootable CD support
• CD-Text
• CDDB-support via HTTP/Proxy or native
• Copy/Master Data and Audio-CDs on the fly
• Administration mode for usage in computer pools
• Data-DVD writing (DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW)
• Drag&Drop
• Networked device support (Remote-SCSI)

Manual/FAQ:

• Portuguese translation of this manual by Artur Weber.

The FAQ for common questions and answers.

Screenshots:

Fig.0: Main menu	Fig.1 + Fig.1.5: Setup	Fig.2: Read disc	Fig.3: Write disc	Fig.4: Blank disc
Fig.5: Info screen	Fig.6: Play audio	Fig.7: Write options	Fig.8: Master image	Fig.9: ISO options

Download and Installation:

• The source in .tar.gz format: xcdroast-1.19.tar.gz
  [MD5: 435f178db53e14452e923cba6afbb687]

• You need cdrtools-3.02a09 (or newer) for this release. Download it here.
  Some Linux distributions may already have packages in their online repositories for this version.

Feedback:

If you have any question about cdrecord (the tool X-CD-Roast uses to write its CDs) please contact Jörg Schilling: Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de

If you think you found a bug and already looked through the manual and FAQ please follow here as a guide how to write the report best in order to be useful.

Links:

• Source Forge

Special thanks to the Companies which sponsored me with free sample CD-Writers or internet domain services. If you also want to be a sponsor, please contact me.