arson v0.9.5
Tony Sideris <tonys111@users.sourceforge.net>
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* Description

Arson is a KDE frontend to various CD burning, and ripping tools. It
was originally begun to burn audio CDs because i could find no other
frontends which used cdrdao (in disk at once mode), which could decode
various encoded audio formats (mp3, ogg), and displayed accurate track
length as the playlist was created. But as usual once the initial plans
were implemented I just kept going...

* Features

Full progress displayed for all lengthy operations
Drag and drop from Konqueror to create play lists
Audio CD Burning
	Accurate track length tally displayed as track list grows
	Supports various audio file types, currently:
		Wav
		Mp3
		Ogg Vorbis (optional)
	Can optionally normalize all tracks before burning to even out volumes
Data CD Burning
	Existing ISO, and CUE/BIN files
	Image creation/burning from single directory tree
	Complete filesystem creation to come in later versions
	ISO images burned with either cdrdao or cdrecord
Audio CD ripping/encoding (rip tracks from CD to file)
	Encoding in various output file formats, currently:
		Wav
		Mp3 (bladeenc, and LAME supported)
		Ogg Vorbis (optional)
		AU
		CDR
		AIFF
		AIFC
	CdIndex support (a free CDDB-like service)
	Freedb support (a free, open CDDB service)
	Supports generic SCSI and cooked IOCTL interfaces
CD-to-CD copying
	Direct copy
	CD-to-file-to-CD copying
	Using either readcd/cdrecord or cdrdao
[S]VCD creation creation and burning

* Requirements

Burning CDs requires a system that has a CDR[W] drive, and/or other CDROM devices properly
setup as specified by the CD-Writing HOWTO (SCSI or SCSI emulation), this document can be
found here:

http://linux.com/howto/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html

Also, this IS just a frontend, so the programs that do the actual work are obviously
required. A full list of these programs can be found in the Programs tab of the
configuration dialog.

The audio CD ripper should work with any CDROM drive configuration. If you do not have a
SCSI CDROM drive, or an ATAPI CDROM drive configured to use SCSI emulation, then choose the
Cooked IOCTL interface in the ripper configuration dialog.

cdda2wav is required for ripping audio tracks. cdda2wav or cdparanoioa can be used to
actually rip the tracks, but cdda2wav is required to do the initial disk scan (it provides
more information about the tracks, and disk, which cdparanoia does not).

cdrdao is required for audio CD copying. readcd/cdrecord can only be used to copy data CDs.

cdrdao is required for audio CD writing, support for writing audio CDs with cdrecord will
come in the future.

* Installation
see INSTALL file

* Todo
see TODO file

* Credits
see AUTHORS file

