copyright (c) 2003 Thorsten Stärk

## Thorsten Stärk:
X-CD-Roast 0.98alpha14
Manual

Appendix B: Glossary

CD-RWs
df
glame
lame
mpg123
Tooltip-help
Verbose mode

## CD-RWs

CD-RWs are re-writeable CDs, CD-Rs can only be written once.
X-CD-Roast make no difference between CD-Rs and CD-RWs. Note that

- The button "Blank CD-RW" (for example under Duplicate CD -> Write CD) does not make sense for CD-Rs
- CD-RWs will be written much slower
- CD-RWs will mostly not be played by a CD-Player.

## df

df is a text-based front-end to analyse partition settings. We use it especially to find out what partition a folder belongs to. If, for example df returns the following output:

    Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
    /dev/hda5              5116504   4154152    962352  82% /
    /dev/hda7                15522      4811      9910  33% /boot
    shmfs                   128064         0    128064   0% /dev/shm
    /dev/sr1                661736    661736         0 100% /media/cdrom
    /dev/sr0                660872    660872         0 100% /media/dvd
    /dev/hda1             18425536   4741280  13684256  26% /windows/C
    /dev/hda8             14965936   7876352   7089584  53% /windows/D

It means the following: The partion hda5 (/dev/hda5) is the root directory, mounted on /. All sub-directories belong to that partition, except /boot, /dev/shm, /media/cdrom, and so on. All sub-directories of /boot belong to hda7, all subdirectories of /dev/shm belong to the shmfs and so on. As you can only use one directory of each partition to save CD images, you could for example use the four directories /tmp, /boot/subdir, /windows/C/temp and /windows/D/spiele. The command does even more, it shows you that it does not make sense to use a subdirectory of /boot. There is not enough space available.

## glame

Glame is a graphical program to convert between different audio formats. We use it espacially to adopt settings in .wav-files. You can get it from your distribution or from www.glame.de.

## lame

lame is a text-based front-end to convert between different audio formats. We use it espacially to decode .mp3-files to .wav-files to be able to write them on a audio-CD. You can get it from your distribution or from www.lame.org. Type the following to decode myfile.mp3 to myfile.wav: `lame --decode myfile.mp3 myfile.wav`

## mpg123

mpg123 is a text-based front-end to convert between different audio formats. We use it espacially to encode .wav-files to .mp3-files to save valuable space on your hard disc. You can get it from your distribution or from www.mpg123.org. Type the following to encode myfile.wav to myfile.mp3: `mpg123 -w myfile.wav myfile.mp3`.

## Tooltip-help

X-CD-Roast provides tooltip (bubble-) help on all screens. Try it! Chose Setup -> CD Settings -> Default write mode and rest your cursor 2 seconds over Track-at-Once:
What you get is a perfect explanation what it is for.

## Verbose mode

Image you are admin and want to set X-CD-Roast so that every user has the same configuration status. How do you find out what files to manipulate ? Imagine you have a very ugly error that you want to track as precise as possible. How do you find out what exactly X-CD-Roast did ? The answer to both questions is the verbose mode. When activated, X-CD-Roast logs every important task it does. It can be set more or less strict. Activate it by chosing Setup -> Miscellaneous -> Log level (and do not forget to "Save Configuration"). Very important for error tracking !

copyright (c) 2003 Thorsten Stärk