KreateCD - frontend for CD writers using the K Desktop Environment

Copyright (C) 1999-2001 Alexander Feigl (Alexander.Feigl@gmx.de)
                   according to the GNU GPL in the file COPYING


KreateCD is a graphical frontend for some cd recording software. It can
be used to simplify the process of creating CD-Rs on Linux computers with
the K desktop environment installed. This utility calls the base applications
(which are shell commands) for you so you will be able to burn CD-Rs very
comfortably without knowing dozens of options and switches. :-)

KreateCD is far from being complete but you will already be able to burn some
simple CD-Rs with it. There is no ISO9660 mastering support by now but you
should be able to copy CD-ROMs and audio CDDA. You can even burn your favorite 
.WAV files on CDDA - including automatic boosting so that the maximum dynamic
range of the CDDA is used. 

Of course you use this software at YOUR OWN RISK - don't kill me because of 
unusable CD-R media. This software is not tested very well because it is a
very early release and I'm no copy shop.


REQUIREMENTS
============

  - Linux 2.x.x       or
    Solaris 8         or
    other Unix-like system (not tested)
  - QT 2.2 or any later
  - KDE 2.0 or any later
  - SCSI CD-ROM and SCSI CD writer or IDE with SCSI emulation support
  - cdrecord 1.9a05
    (http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/
            private/cdrecord.html)
  - cdparanoia-III-alpha 9.7 or later
    (http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/index.html)
  - mkisofs-1.13a05 (included with cdrecord)
  - cdda2wav 1.9a05 (included with cdrecord)

BUGS
============
Reporting a bug will not only help you (your problems will most likely be
solved), but it will make us authors happy! You can submit your bugs using
the SourceForge tracker at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=1801,
or you can use the "Report Bug..." function in the Help Menu.


FEATURE REQUEST
============
As developers, we are certainly interested in what YOU want in the next release
of KreateCD. You can submit your wishes and feature request on our sourceforge
website, at  http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=351801&group_id=1801&func=browse


INSTALLATION
============

As "usual":

- configure
- make
- make install


IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS WITH CONFIGURE FINDING CDRECORD, MKISOFS etc.
==================================================================

If configure claims that you don't have the needed helper application
installed, please check twice if you have a correct version installed which is
not too old. If you have installed a recent version and configure still
aborts or gives warning messages, you can force to use this version. This 
is also neccessary if you installed multiple versions of a helper application
and the first version in the path is too old. This is a known Problem with Solaris 8.

You will have to set the environment variable of the application which is not found
to the complete path to this application. As an example you will have to set 
the environment variable MKISOFS to /usr/local/bin/mkisofs if your mkisofs is 
installed in /usr/local/bin. 

If you set such a environment variable manually, configure doesn't check if you
use a compatible version and bad things might happen if you force to use an old
version.

CHANGES SINCE 1.0.0
===================

- support for on the fly copy
- improved audio options dialog
- new, improved user interface
- different project types
- Ogg vorbis support
- Solaris au format support
- displays fifo buffer and total percentage while burning
- kreatecd should be more portable now
- track edit actions can now be cancelled

CHANGES SINCE 0.4.0
===================

- need KDE >= 2.0
- improved ISO 9660 dialog (with drag and drop)
- ISO 9660 size calculation
- ISO 9660 multisession support
- Drag and drop in project window
- new configuration dialogs
- default ISO 9660 options can be configured
- MP3 support
- "audio only" project mode
- various bugfixes

Have fun with it!

Alexander Feigl
