Note: I originally posted this in the Burrrn 1.0 thread, but since Burrrn is up to version 1.031 (and counting) it seemed all the suggestions for new features were getting slightly lost among the other Burrrn-related discussion. If it's acceptable with Gambit, I propose one centralized thread where suggestions (and only suggestions!) could be posted, and responded to as necessary.


All right, here are two formats that - in my opinion (which usually seems to differ from everyone else's!) - should be implemented:

You can add MIDI support via TiMidity++, a freeware MIDI-to-WAV program which uses Gravis Ultrasound patches (also available at the same site). The site also says, "If you want to make wave files then get this version of Timidity (228.5kb) as well. This version is suitable for real time play if you have at least a 300 Mhz CPU and is a must have for making a wave file (best quality). The cspline algorithm instead of the linear algorithm and requires more CPU horsepower." Right... whatever that means. From my perspective, it means I would be able to share a heck of a lot more music with my father-in-law.

Shorten is another essential... for all the wrong reasons. Hey, I'll be the first to admit that at this point the compression you can get using SHN is relatively poor, and the format doesn't even support tagging (which means the integrated CD-TEXT functions of Burrrn would be wasted), but in terms of what people use for source material it is probably the most widespread lossless format. In my own collection I have several thousand shows archived in this format, and although I've now switched to FLAC for personal archiving I still occasionally receive SHNs in trade. If you added SHN support to Burrrn and mentioned it on the etree.org mailing list, I suspect you'd get a few thousand downloads overnight. I know, it would be a nightmare for bandwidth... but try to think of all the potential postcards.

A quick question: Is BURN-Proof enabled by default? CDRDAO has supported this since version 1.1.5, so if Burrrn is not already using it could you add a switch to turn this on?

One last item, while I'm here. I notice it is possible to load a CUE sheet with relative paths in the FILE parameter (such as the one below, which is useful if you are burning a comp disc that draws from different directories), and that Burrrn will recognize the correct lengths for the specified files, but when told to "Burrrn" them will simply open a dozen instantaneous DOS boxes and create an empty directory. Could this behavior be fixed, so that relative path Cue sheets would be useable? And if possible, could Burrrn also load the title/artist/album information when loading a CUE sheet?

Here's a sample CUE sheet, using Pink Floyd's first album and related singles, to explain what I mean:

Thank you, Gambit. Sometime this week I should have a chance to run a few errands, and one of them is in search of an appropriate postcard to send.

- M.

I don't know. You are the only person who asked for this. I think for the time being you have to convert them to wav yourself and afterwards burrrn them. Never say no, but...


I'm considering shorten and wavpack. I'll take a look at them after 1.04. If anybody has a description of the format, please post a link as I don't use these formats, so I'm not familiar with them.


He, you hear that ChS?


Yup.


I'll check that. Btw. what did you use to create that cue?


Burrrn should already do that. If it doesn't please send me the cue file.


Thanks


Ain't you from Men In Black?
- G.

All right... but this might be one of those instances where a user-configurable box for unsupported formats would be useful. Then folks who want it could simply add the program/switches/file extension themselves, and post examples of working lines.


You should be able to get any necessary info on Shorten from this site, but unfortunately it seems to be offline tonight (the site has been around for a few years and updates are relatively frequent, so I suspect it's just offline temporarily...).


Simple - it's identical to the sample CUE file at the end of my first message (save that there is, as per the standard, a hard return after the last line). But regardless of whether the CUE sheets reference files with relative paths or only reference files from a single directory in which the CUE sheet also resides, the song titles/artist/album information is not being displayed in the Burrrn interface. Manually loading the files (dragging-and-dropping them on Burrrn) does load all the titles, artist & album info, and once the files have been loaded - if Burrrn is not closed in between - then loading the CUE sheet brings up the song titles (although artist & album are still not automatically loaded).

The CUE sheet was edited by hand, and works fine with WAV files (with ".flac" changed to ".wav," of course). Burrrn accepts the CUE sheet and loads the track times, but does not decode/burn the files.


Well, only for the past few years. I used to spend all my time giving orders to some guy named James Bond, until they replaced me with a little old lady. (!)

- M.

I'm using Burrrn more and more, but I have some suggestions (maybe for Burrrn 2.0 ) that could improve it:
-An "Erase CD-RW" option.
-Hide or run minimised all those "popup-command line" windows.
This could be using right click if you don't want to add too much buttons:
-Clear selected files from the list.
-Up-down files (change order).
-Add files - Add complete directory to the list.
And this would be nice:
-A total progress bar.
-Support for copy CD Audio - read original CD Text - get titles from CDDB.
Regards.

Is in 1.04, hopefully out next week.


I think we all agree that EAC is the best and secure ripper. So if EAC doesn't support your writer, you can create the image file and then burrrn it.

All the other things you mentioned are on my todo list.


Oh, I forgot about this one. That's because just the day before, I saw Men In Black II and there was this joke with Michael Jackson wanting to be agent M.

burnatonce already does all this and more - as of 0.97 eac non-compliant cuesheets will be supported too.

Btw, I only post this here since I know Gambit won't mind.

Jamie

Nice.

Yes, but then I need two programs. The advantage of Burrrn is its capacity for burn CD Audio in one step, and I think it could be a very good all-in-one CD Audio burner. It's a lot of work for you, I know. And maybe I'm too lazy.


I know it, Jamie, because I'm using burnatonce too.
Even I wrote a little manual in spanish about how to burn Ogg Vorbis files with burnatonce some time ago.
But I like Burrrn because it's specifically oriented to CD Audio. It does what I need, and only that. Small, easy, fast... good.

Cool, well I guess burnatonce is not intended to be so... er, limited? If all you want is something to replace the EAC burning engine then Gambit has done a great job!

However, if you are using burnatonce anyway then there must be something you don't like about the way it does audio - please share (maybe in another thread?).

P.S. I had a feeling you used burnatonce since all the things you asked for are already in burnatonce - that's why I posted. I guess you want a hybrid of burrrn and burnatonce eh?

Jamie

Jamie:
I have some reasons, but we are going totally off topic. We could continue in the burnatonce forum, if you want.

is there a possibility to add *.mp4 files for burning?

yup...


if am not way of here...

both Burrrn & BAO can mp4..
thrue faad...

it won't. i've just checked it. i've dropped some mp4 in burrrn and nothing happened..