Edit: Unfortunately, the images originally included in this post are gone, because of hosting problems in late 2009. My apologies.
A big thanks to dawn for leaving a note on my software page about Recorder, an exceedingly simple CD — and DVD — burner that needs only PyGTK to run, along with the obligatory CD/DVD writing packages.
Look at it! Isn’t it beautiful?
This is exactly what I’ve been needing for almost a year — no fancy session lists, no drudging through endless burn and write options. Just a simple list for data discs, the ability to burn CD, DVD or ISO — does the job and does it right.
It’s a very sparse little program. It’s very reminiscent of PyBurn, and it’s possible that the two are somehow related (dawn said that was the case, but I don’t see that on the home page). It’s beta software right now, so it doesn’t burn audio discs yet. And I’d like (need?) a CD erasing option, so PyBurn is still on my machine, just for that.
But this is great stuff to me. A little more time and it should be perfect. I can’t wait. 🙂
I actually learned about it on the Arch forums: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=47253
I think he updates the topic regularly. It’s worth keeping an eye on that thread.
I think you should have a “software” category.
I probably should, shouldn’t I. …
make; make install works okay but trying to run the finished product just results in a couple of GtkWarnings… Anybody’s got a .deb?
Hmm. The tarball I downloaded for the screenshot is just a python script, which means you can double-click on it and you should get the same GUI you see in the picture above. Did you try that?
No, I just followed the instructions on the page you linked to:
“Go to Downloads tab and get the newest file. After extract it.. To install:
cd ./recorder-1.2.7
#To install
make install
#To uninstall
make uninstall
#Clean temp files
make clean
The executable will be installed in /usr/bin/recorder ”
there was a python script file simply called ‘recorder’ but running that results in another set of error messages I don’t know how to interpret:
“generating /usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/recorder.mo
sh: msgfmt: not found
generating /usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/recorder.mo
sh: msgfmt: not found
Cleaning up…
Listing . …
Compiling ./locale.py …
Listing ./po …
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “./recorder”, line 10, in
gettext.install(“recorder”)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/gettext.py”, line 508, in install
t = translation(domain, localedir, fallback=True, codeset=codeset)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/gettext.py”, line 480, in translation
mofiles = find(domain, localedir, languages, all=1)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/gettext.py”, line 437, in find
for nelang in _expand_lang(lang):
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/gettext.py”, line 131, in _expand_lang
from locale import normalize
ImportError: cannot import name normalize
“
Thanks Kmandla. Just got it, and am now going to try it out for burning the SliTaz ISO.
I simply ran:
make
sudo make install
And it works for me 🙂
Hi, I’m the developer of recorder.
Erase CD was implemented on the last version and burn cd audio is finished for the next version.
I’m glad you like it.
icrave, it worked beautifully 🙂
Thanks for developing this awesome program!
Big +1!
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