What's new in CDR Tools Front End 1.5 dev
Jun 19, 2013
- Added new feature to decode .ogg and .mp3 files when burning audio and mixed mode CDs
- Ogg/Vorbis decoding is done using oggdec
- MP3 decoding is done using madplay
- Added play with your audio player button to the "select audio files" dialog
- Added customized version of audio selection dialog when you can play file before confirm your selection
- Changed settings dialog
- Added a new option "Shut down when ready"
- Added optional tray icon to show you when CDR Tools are working
- Now only recorder drives are shown in drives combo when only recording is allowed
- Added directory handler. Right click on a directory in Windows Explorer and select "Burn/Create ISO with CDR Tools"
- Changed the way text is displayed in the Output console
- Added a timer in console caption to show the operation time
- Changed the charsets parser. Now it should work fine with MINGW cdrtools builds
- Fixed a -tao warning when burning audio and mixed mode CDs
- Fixed a problem with data image name when burning mixed mode CDs
- Installer now comes with CDR Tools version 2.01
New in CDR Tools Front End 1.4 beta (Jun 19, 2013)
- Language functionality is back again. Please send me your translations!
- Added default write method Track At Once (TAO). It was default in the previous CDR Tools versions, but now it should be explicitly specified using the command line. This might become a problem for those who use -rawXXX method in the custom options. Please send me your feedback.
- Help file is back (updated)
- Installer now comes with CDR Tools version 2.01a32
- Changed some options to appear with alternative names because they are reserved by POSIX.1-2001 for other purposes. This might lead to some options not working correctly if my front end is used with CDR Tools version prior 2.01a32
New in CDR Tools Front End 1.4 dev 3 (Jun 19, 2013)
- Added "Import file list" button for Audio file list selection dialog. You can use it to import a text file contents into the list. Supported formats are path-list (generated from Visual ISO) and plain text "one line one file name" format. Note that the list is cleared before importing!
- Added "Allow only 16 characters in volume name" option in settings dialog.
- Improved user interface, now "Multisession options" button displays the current selection
- Improved installer. Now it can use the front end to scan for available CD drives and can try to download and install an ASPI layer for you in case of an error.
- More minor user interface tweaks
- Fixed a bug in Visual ISO resulting in not displaying the proper progress bar value and incorrect total size while loading a file which is blocked by another application
New in CDR Tools Front End 1.4 dev 2 (Jun 19, 2013)
- =Added "paranoia" library support for extracting audio CD tracks
- Added CDDB lookup support for extracting audio CD tracks
- Added interactive CDDB choice mode for extracting audio CD tracks
- Added support for "copy permitted" mode while creating Audio CDs
- Added support for using the .inf files created by CDDA2WAV while creating Audio CDs
- Added support for creating Audio CDs with CD text
- Added an option for adding a new session without merging the old one's content
- Improved "Record CD on the fly" option once again. You should try it :)
- Improved "No CD drives found" dialog (more information added)
- Fixed log file support introduced in version 1.4 dev
- Fixed mixed mode support
- Fixed a bug resulting in some of the options like Multisession and FIFO size not to work in Audio and Mixed mode CDs
- Fixed a small bug in Visual ISO resulting in not displaying the proper progress bar value while loading a file from a command line option
New in CDR Tools Front End 1.4 dev (Jun 19, 2013)
- Added multisession support
- Added CUE sheet support (CUE/BIN images burning)
- Added overburn support
- Added input-charset and output-charset support and now you can select a code page for directory and file names
- Added support for long joliet file names in ISO relax options
- Added new CD blank options (Blank a track, Unreserve a reserved track, Blank the tail of a track)
- Added "Burn with CDR Tools" option to Windows Explorer context menu for .iso and .cue file extensions
- Added "All tracks into one file" option for extracting audio tracks
- Added options to select CDR Tools output font, font colour and window background
- Added options log CDR Tools output into a file (overwrite and append modes)
- Added an option to start operations immediately instead of having to press the "Start" button
- Added an option to allow only one pressing of the "Start" button
- Added support for printing the drive capabilities for SCSI-3/mmc compliant drives to "Specific and initial tasks" dialog
- Added "Load from path-list" support to Visual ISO
- Fixed a bug in Visual ISO image size progress bar resulting in invalid size shown
- Improved "Record CD on the fly" option which creates ISO and CD in one step. You should try it! I'm using it almost all the time :) Just remember to set bigger FIFO size in "cdrecord options" dialog. Something between 8 and 64 Mb should do the job.
- Improved Visual ISO to CDR Tools Front End integration
- Improved Audio files selection dialog - now resizable
- Temporary removed Multilanguage support - version in development
- Temporary removed Help file - version in development
- Visual ISO version now is 1.1 beta
New in CDR Tools Front End 1.3 (Jun 19, 2013)
- Updated help file (latest CDROM FAQ)
- CDR Tools Front End installation now comes with CDR Tools 2.01a19 final
- Installer now has multilanguage support
- Smaller installer using better compression (7-zip)
New in CDR Tools Front End 1.3 Beta 3 (Jun 19, 2013)
- Fixed "default path" problem when using "Record CD on the fly" option
- Fixed a minor problem in Visual ISO that doesn't allow the user to select network folder when using the "Add folder" button
- Installer now comes with CDR Tools version 2.01a15
- Minor installer improvements
New in CDR Tools Front End 1.3 Beta 2 (Jun 19, 2013)
- Added bootable CD support (single mode boot from a floppy diskette image)
- Added an option to create an image file from a floppy disk
- Added an option for minimizing the grace time (seconds before burning start)