How to Burn a CD’s/DVD’s in Ubuntu Linux
Posted by admin on March 9th, 2008 
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It requires a recent version of cdtools (cdrecord, readcd, cdda2wav and mkisofs), version 2 or greater should be okay. It also requires growisofs for DVD burning.
GnomeBaker Features
Create data CDs.
Blank RW disks.
Burn DVDs.
Copy data CDs.
Copy audio CDs.
Support multisession burning.
Record to and burn from existing CD ISO images.
Can burn via SCSI and ATAPI on Linux kernels 2.4 and 2.6. Basically if cdrecord works, then GnomeBaker will work.
Drag and drop to create data CDs (including drag and drop to/from the Nautilus file manager).
Create audio CDs from existing WAV, MP3, FLAC, and Ogg files.
Integrate with GConf for storage of application settings.
Install GnomeBaker in Ubuntu
sudo aptitude install gnomebaker
This will complete the installation.
After the program is installed, open it by doing Applications—>Sound & Video—>GnomeBaker
Once it opens you should see similar to the following screen
Burn Data CD Using gnomebaker
If you wish to make a Data CD, click Data CD near the bottom.
Add the files and click “Burn”
Burn Audio CD Using gnomebaker
If you want to make an Audio CD, click Audio CD instead of Data CD.
Change the audio CD length from 21 minutes to 80 minutes (a standard CD size) so that you can add a reasonable amount of music to the CD.
Add the music and hit “Burn”.
Burn .iso using gnomebaker
To make an ISO image, click Tools, and then Burn CD/DVD image depending on if you are burning to a CD or DVD. Then you will need to find the location of the ISO image (e.g /home/name/Desktop/someiso.iso)
You can copy another CD/DVD or Audio CD by selecting the option that applies from the Tools menu.
Writing a multisession disk with GnomeBaker
1st Session:
1. Add Files to Data Disk
2. Create data disk. Mode=”default” or “tao” (default should be tao, i.e. track-at-once).
3. Start
4. Ok.
Next session:
1. Import the previous session(s) (Import button). You might have to unmount the disk manually in case you get errors at importing the disk (apparently GnomeBaker can’t handle very well the unmounting of a mounted CD)
2. Add Files to Data Disk
3. Create data disk. Mode=”default” or “tao” (default should be tao, i.e. track-at-once).
4. Start
5. Ok.
And that’s it. You should have now a multisession disk.
March 25th, 2008 at 12:18 am
THANKS!!!
This is just what I was looking for, I am new to Ubuntu and Linux and this was just what I needed. Works GREAT!!!
Jim
May 6th, 2008 at 3:42 am
Tried burning some files to an existing CD-RW disc. The disc already contains some files. I clicked on the Data CD project and added the files I want to burn into CD. I clicked the Burn button. It showed the burning process status bar in progress then a message stating “burn failure” I tried using both 700 MB and 800 MB CD-RW and does not work. Any suggestion on this. Thanks.
Emmanuel
January 1st, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Gnomebaker repeatedly crashes with no error message visible. Re-installation does not correct this problem, even after re-installing. Even upgrading to Intrepid did not solve this.
January 6th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
I’m having problems getting Gnome baker to work. I get the following output when I try to burn:
wodim: No write mode specified.
wodim: Asuming -tao mode.
wodim: Future versions of wodim may have different drive dependent defaults.
wodim: Operation not permitted. Warning: Cannot raise RLIMIT_MEMLOCK limits.scsidev: ‘/dev/sr0′
devname: ‘/dev/sr0′
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Wodim version: 1.1.8
SCSI buffer size: 64512
Beginning DMA speed test. Set CDR_NODMATEST environment variable if device
communication breaks or freezes immediately after that.
TOC Type: 0 = CD-DA
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 5
Response Format: 2
Capabilities :
Vendor_info : ‘HP ‘
Identification : ‘DVD Writer 640c ‘
Revision : ‘QS12′
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
Current: 0×0009 (CD-R)
Profile: 0×002B (DVD+R/DL)
Profile: 0×001B (DVD+R)
Profile: 0×001A (DVD+RW)
Profile: 0×0014 (DVD-RW sequential recording)
Profile: 0×0011 (DVD-R sequential recording)
Profile: 0×0010 (DVD-ROM)
Profile: 0×000A (CD-RW)
Profile: 0×0009 (CD-R) (current)
Profile: 0×0008 (CD-ROM)
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96R
Drive buf size : 1073152 = 1048 KB
FIFO size : 12582912 = 12288 KB
Speed set to 1411 KB/s
4 seconds. 3 seconds. 2 seconds. 1 seconds. 0 seconds. Operation starts.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer … input buffer ready.
Performing OPC…
Errno: 5 (Input/output error), send opc scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB: 54 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
status: 0×2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 04 00 00 00 00 12 00 00 00 00 09 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0×4 Hardware Error, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0×09 Qual 0×00 (track following error) Fru 0×0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 15.217s timeout 60s
wodim: OPC failed.
Writing time: 18.462s
wodim: fifo had 192 puts and 0 gets.
wodim: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%.
and no matter what cd/dvd burning software i use something stops it from burning.