Domnic Mendes, who had a positive experience with this tool, thought K3b would be a good addition to Cool Tools.

• Creating data CDs:

• Add files and folders to your data CD project via drag'n'drop

• Remove files from your project, move files within your project

• Create empty direcories within your project

• Write data CDs on-the-fly directly without an image file or with image file. It's also possible to just create the image file and write it to CD later

• Rockridge and Joliet support

• Rename files in your project

• Let K3b rename all the mp3/ogg files you add to your project to a common format like "artist - title.mp3"

• For advanced users: support for nearly all the mkisofs options

• Verifying the burned data

• Support for multible El-Torito boot images

• Multisession support

• Creating audio CDs:
  
  
• Pluggable audio decoding. Plugins for WAV, MP3, FLAC, and Ogg Vorbis are included

• CD-TEXT support. Will automagically be filled in from tags in audio files

• Write audio CDs on-the-fly without decoding audio files to wav before

• Normalize volume levels before writing

• Cut audio tracks at the beginning and the end

• Creating Video CDs:

• VCD 1.1, 2.0, SVCD

• CD-i support (Version 4)

• Creating mixed-mode CDs:

• CD-Extra (CD-Plus, Enhanced Audio CD) support

• All data and audio project features

• Creating eMovix CDs

• CD Copy:

• Copy single and multi session data CDs

• Copy Audio CDs

• Copy Enhanced Audio CDs (CD-Extra)

• Copy CD-Text

• Add CD-Text from cddb

• CD Cloning mode for perfect single session CD copies

• DVD burning:

• Support for DVD-R(W) and DVD R(W)

• Creating data DVD projects

• Creating eMovix DVDs

• Formatting DVD-RWs and DVD RWs

• CD Ripping:

• CDDB support via http, cddbp and local cddb directory

• Sophisticated pattern system to automatically organize the ripped tracks in directories and name them according to album, title, artist, and track number

• CD-TEXT reading. May be used instead of CDDB info

• K3b stores CDDB info of the ripped tracks which will automatically be used as CD-TEXT when adding the ripped files to an audio project

• Plugin system to allow encoding to virtually every audio format. Plugins to encode to Ogg Vorbis, Mp3, FLAC, and all formats supported by SoX included

• DVD Ripping and DivX/XviD encoding

• Save/load projects

• Blanking of CDR-Ws

• Retrieving Table of contents and cdr information

• Writing existing iso images to CD or DVD with optional verification of the written data

• Writing cue/bin files created for CDRWIN

• DVD copy (no video transcoding yet)

• Enhanced CD device handling:

• Detection of max. writing and reading speed

• Detection of Burnfree and Justlink support

• Good media detection and optional automatic CD-RW and DVD-RW blanking

• KParts-Plugin ready