These people are freaks
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torquillEvery time I hunt on Google for CD creation software on linux, I find people singing the praises of XCdRoast.
I can't fathom why. I keep trying to use it, and it continues to be a an impossibly arcane, useless piece of crap with a horrendous user interface. No matter what I want to do, none of the buttons will open a dialog to do it. Want to write audio files stored on your hard drive to a CD? Good luck selecting those files, unless you add all relevant directories to a list by hand. Want to pull files from more than one CD for a compilation? If it lets you do that, I haven't discovered how. Half the time it can't even find the CD/DVD drive.
It has plenty of options in the preferences, but not a single checkbox for "Do Not Suck". I'd rather tangle with cdrecord, whose man page insists that you need to define a SCSI bus address (it actually wants a normal device) than punch button after button in XCdRoast, trying to find some dialog that will show me a list of files to add individually to an audio CD.
I don't understand how anyone uses that piece of junk. It's the epitome of the type of program people talk about when condemning open-source software; whereas I can defend most of the programs I use as being much more user-friendly and robust than the negative stereotype, I can't bring myself to stand up for XCdRoast. The people who do must be on crack.
I can't fathom why. I keep trying to use it, and it continues to be a an impossibly arcane, useless piece of crap with a horrendous user interface. No matter what I want to do, none of the buttons will open a dialog to do it. Want to write audio files stored on your hard drive to a CD? Good luck selecting those files, unless you add all relevant directories to a list by hand. Want to pull files from more than one CD for a compilation? If it lets you do that, I haven't discovered how. Half the time it can't even find the CD/DVD drive.
It has plenty of options in the preferences, but not a single checkbox for "Do Not Suck". I'd rather tangle with cdrecord, whose man page insists that you need to define a SCSI bus address (it actually wants a normal device) than punch button after button in XCdRoast, trying to find some dialog that will show me a list of files to add individually to an audio CD.
I don't understand how anyone uses that piece of junk. It's the epitome of the type of program people talk about when condemning open-source software; whereas I can defend most of the programs I use as being much more user-friendly and robust than the negative stereotype, I can't bring myself to stand up for XCdRoast. The people who do must be on crack.
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Date: 2005-09-26 20:03 (UTC)