gcombust

gcombust is a GUI software that acts as a front-end for mkisofs, mkhybrid, cdda2wav, cdrecord, and cdlabelgen. Developed using C programming language and using the GTK+ widget set, gcombust is a work in progress, with the current release being a development one. Before releasing a new version, the developer tries to test it, but occasionally bugs slip through. Therefore, if you decide to try it, you should be aware that you might find bugs, and the developer welcomes feedback, bug reports, suggestions, and fixes. However, the developer may take a while to respond to your mail.

Although gcombust seems quite stable, keep in mind that it is still under development, and the developer suspects it will always be. Currently, the most significant problem with gcombust is the absence of documentation. Therefore, if you decide to use it, here are some key features:

- Burning data on the fly from a hard drive without making an image
- CD-to-CD data copy on the fly
- Tooltips to avoid reading man pages
- Easy creation of ISO-images
- Maximizing disk by hinting which directories/files to use
- Audio-CD creation
- WAV to audio-CD
- Audio-CD to WAV
- Audio-CD direct copy
- Print CD-covers with cdlabelgen
- Multisession support
- Bootable CD support
- Save/load path selections
- NLS support
- DnD support

To run gcombust, your system must have cdrtools (cdrecord/mkisofs/cdda2wav) 1.10, cdlabelgen 1.5.0, and GTK+ 1.2.x versions. It is recommended to use the latest version of GTK+ (at the moment, 1.2.10).

The latest release of gcombust contains various bug fixes, such as compile fix by Andrea Suatoni and language updates for de.po and hu.po files. The developer has removed the warning about mkisofs versions < 1.10a16 as everyone should have upgraded by now. Moreover, the new release has added options for CD-RW blanking and for 90 minutes CDs.