PROJECTS - CDR Tools Front End

CDR Tools Front End

History

Version 1.5 dev (released 20.12.2004)

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

Version 1.4 beta (released 27.06.2004)

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

Version 1.4 dev 3 (released 01.03.2004)

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

Version 1.4 dev 2 (released 13.01.2004)

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

Version 1.4 dev (released 07.01.2004)

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

Version 1.3 final (released 08.11.2003)

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)

Version 1.3 beta 3 (released 02.06.2003)

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

Version 1.3 beta 2 (released 05.05.2003)

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)

Version 1.3 beta (released 28.03.2003)

New more visual way to add audio files to Audio and Mixed mode CDs
Added Splash screen to show while Front End initializes at startup
Added support for Windows XP Themes - now looks better under Windows XP
Some dialogs were extended to fit the translation texts
Minor code improvements and some unnecessary code was removed

Version 1.2 final (released 11.03.2003)

CDR Tools Front End installation now comes with CDR Tools 2.0 final
Updated help file (updated manual pages, readme files and latest CDROM FAQ)

Version 1.2 beta 4 (released 05.12.2002)

Fixed CDR Tools Front End error with changing folders and refusing to start CDR Tools executables when the user browse for a file in different folder.
Fixed some incorrect file/folder checks in CDR Tools Front End (mkisofs options dialog)
Visual ISO now outputs with LF only instead of CR+LF (Unix/Linux style)
Improved Drag and Drop on ISO tree behavior in Visual ISO
Added Run Windows Explorer button to Visual ISO toolbar

Version 1.2 beta 3 (released 02.12.2002)

Added "Save As" functionality to Visual ISO
Small internal improvements to Visual ISO to make future translation support easier
Minor interface improvements

Version 1.2 beta 2 (released 29.11.2002)

Fixed a bug in Visual ISO, which causes all system icons to disappear after user close it, inside Windows 9x/ME
Added German translation to version 1.2! Thanks to Thomas Kaes
Installer now comes with CDR Tools version 1.11a40

Version 1.2 beta (released 26.11.2002)

Added "Create ISO from multiply directories/drives" via the Visual ISO project. More information in the release notes.
Added support for path-lists to the Front End

Version 1.1 final (released 16.09.2002)

Added Dutch translation! Thanks to Bert van Velsen
Added Polish translation! Thanks to Wojtek Wasilewski
Updated help file

Version 1.1 beta 3 (released 12.08.2002)

Added German translation! Thanks to Thorsten Ebeling
Fixed a bug with help file displaying under Windows 9x/ME. Thanks to Thorsten Ebeling.
Fixed a bug with "Directory select" dialogs under Windows 9x/ME. Thanks to Thorsten Ebeling.
Improved translation system

Version 1.1 beta 2 (released 12.07.2002)

Fixed support for directories containing spaces. Thanks to Andrea Vangelista
Fixed a bug in HFS options construction
Fixed bugs with values containing spaces in "Advanced ISO id options" and "Select HFS options" dialogs
Fixed a bug which causes the "Erase CDRW disk" option not to be remembered and automatically selected on next start

Version 1.1 beta (released 07.05.2002)

Added Multilanguage support.
Added "Record CD on the fly" option in "Select cdrecord options" dialog. This allows you to create a CD image and record it at the same time.
Added option for burnproof. (cdrecord -driveropts=burnproof) in "Select cdrecord options" dialog
Added option for FIFO size. (cdrecord fs=) in "Select cdrecord options" dialog
Added "Set Disk At Once (DAO) mode" in "Select cdrecord options" dialog
Added many "ISO relax options" in "Select mkisofs options" dialog
Added HFS support in "Select mkisofs options" dialog
Added "Hide TRANS.TBL from Joliet tree" option in "Select mkisofs options" dialog
Added "Select extract directory" option in "Select cdda2wav options" dialog
Added "Show disc ATIP information" (cdrecord -atip) option in "Specific and initial tasks" dialog
Added some small interface improvements.
Removed lame encoder Front End support

Version 1.0 - Initial version (released 03.2001).