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Xfburn
Xfburn is a simple CD/DVD burning tool based on libburnia libraries. It can blank CD/DVD(-RW)s, burn and create iso images, audio CDs, as well as burn personal compositions of data to either CD or DVD. It Is stable, and under ongoing development.
The current version is 0.6.2, released on 2020-03-07. This release fixes a number of smaller bugs and uses more modern libraries for improved compatibility with today's software.
For more detailed information please have a look at the README or the NEWS file.
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Sources:
We recommend to use a packaged version of Xfburn if it is available. Xfburn is packaged for several distributions, for example:
- Gentoo
- ArchLinux
- Foresight Linux
And probably many more…
Source code repository
Reporting Bugs
If you are experiencing a bug in Xfburn
, your way of helping things getting fixed is to report a bug about it in Xfce GitLab. Please note that to do this you will need to have / create an account.
Report a new bug
If your bug has not been reported before, please submit a new bug report.
When writing your bug report, try to be as descriptive as possible, but avoid verbosity; Mozilla has a nice guide on how to write a bug report.
For more information, see Bug Reporting and Fixing.
File a new bug or enhancement request
Open Bugs
Here's a list (updated daily) of open bug reports with the date that bug was reported in parenthesis.
- gdk_threads_* deprecation warnings on build (2024/01/03 19:49)
- Device not detected (2023/06/26 06:11)
- Missing icon on Wayland session of KDE Plasma (2023/06/26 06:07)
- Error loop when mounting an ISO mid-burn (2023/06/23 03:16)
- No BD-R detection anymore (2023/03/22 20:22)
- Burned CD/DVD isn't identical to original ISO file (2023/03/06 05:35)
- Please support multisession (2022/12/20 12:18)
- Converted stereo MP3s don't sound correct (2022/10/22 21:49)
- Allow deleting files from top archive panel (2022/10/20 04:55)
- Add 'Contents' entry to Help menu (2022/10/19 07:24)
- No gap between tracks with TAO write mode (2021/01/24 04:37)
- Feature requested: COPY CD/DVD function (2021/01/24 04:32)
- Improve writing of Audio CDs with cdrdao (2021/01/24 04:30)
- Editable columns for track title and artist in audio compilation (2021/01/24 00:06)
- feature request: additional commandline options (2021/01/23 23:51)
- Save composition option (2021/01/23 23:31)
- Allow multiple copies (2021/01/23 22:41)
- Stop system going to sleep while burning (2021/01/23 22:40)
- Xfburn should be able to burn (not author) Video DVDs (2021/01/23 22:12)
Authors
- David Mohr [david at mcbf.net]
- Mario Đanić [mario.danic at gmail.com]
- (retired) Jean-François Wauthy [pollux at xfce.org]
- Rene Kjellerup [rk.katana.steel at gmail.com]