Brasero is a

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and

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program for

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s, it serves as a graphical front-end (using

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) to

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, cdrskin, growisofs, and (optionally) libburn. Licensed under the terms of the

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History

Brasero was developed by Philippe Rouquier & Luis Medinas. The project was originally named Bonfire, but was renamed after the Spanish word ''

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'' for a small heater used to provide warmth for people sitting at a table. Early releases of the application were well received. In a review in April 2007 published in ''

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'' Robin Monks concluded: After further development and the inclusion of Brasero 0.7.1 in

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8.04 ''Hardy Heron'' in April 2008 the application received further press reviews. In May 2008 Ryan Paul of

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said: Brasero was later integrated into GNOME and the version numbers were aligned with GNOME desktop version numbering. Ars Technica reviewed Brasero 2.26, then the newest version, in March 2009, saying: Brasero was at one time the default CD/DVD application in the GNOME desktop, but with more modern computer hardware omitting optical drives, it was removed from the GNOME core feature set with version 3.8 in 2013.

Features

Data

Brasero supports both CD and DVD formats. It allows for editing of the disc contents and can remove, move and rename files that are located inside folders. It can also burn data to CD/DVDs on the fly. The application allows automatic filtering for unwanted files, including

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, broken and

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symlinks and files not conforming to the Joliet CD standard. Brasero supports

multisession Optical disc authoring, including DVD and Blu-ray Disc authoring, is the process of assembling source material—video, audio or other data—into the proper logical volume format to then be recorded ("burned") onto an optical disc (ty ...

s, the Joliet extension and can create an

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of the user's

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Audio

When creating audio CDs Brasero writes

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information automatically found, using

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. It also supports the editing of CD-TEXT information and can burn audio CDs on the fly. It can use all audio file formats handled by GStreamer local installation, including

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and

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. Brasero can also search for audio files that are inside dropped folders.

Copying

Brasero is capable of copying a CD/DVD to the user's hard drive in

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format and can copy DVDs and CDs on the fly. It supports single-session data DVDs and any type of CD.

Other features

Brasero can also erase CD/DVDs, save and load ongoing projects and can burn CD and DVD images and cue files. It includes a song, image and video previewer using the

multimedia framework. When operating on a

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newer than 2.6.13 it provides file change notification. When used with GDL, Brasero has a customizable

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. The application supports

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as well as

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from the Nautilus (GNOME file manager) and also other applications. It can use files from a network when the protocol is handled via

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. It can search for files using Tracker, allowing a search that is based on keywords or on file type. Brasero can also display a

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and its contents. Playlists are automatically searched using Tracker.

References

External links

* {{GNOME Free optical disc authoring software Free software programmed in C GNOME Applications Linux CD/DVD writing software Optical disc-related software that uses GTK