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Brasero is a free disc-burning program provided by default since Ubuntu 8.04 LTS.

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Brasero stuck at 'Normalizing tracks'

I am trying to burn an audio CD using Brasero. With all albums I've tried to burn, Brasero gets stuck at Normalizing tracks:
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Brasero says it won't burn the CD because the file is too big, what's going on?

I have an old computer that can't handle a boot stick install, so i have to create an actual, old fashioned boot CD. However, the image size for Ubuntu 12.04 is 732MB, which is too large for a CD, ...
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How do I use Brasero to burn a movie in DVD format?

I have to present an assessment for my Uni course in the form of a DVD movie (so it can be played on a DVD player) but so far, Brasero doesn't seem to be doing it. For example, I left it for over an ...
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How do I create a video DVD from vob files?

I wanna burn a video DVD from existing .vob files that can be played in a home video player. I've burned one but it doesn't have sound. I tried with k3b (New video DVD Project) because Brasero doesn't ...
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Why is it not possible to burn a multisession DVD using brasero?

The multisession function works for CDs, but not for DVDs. There is no option to add files after creating a Multisession DVD. Why is it not possible to create a multisession DVD with brasero? Thank ...
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How can I disable checksum feature in brasero?

Is there any option in brasero to disable the checksum feature in brasero? It slows down the burning.
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How can I rip an audio CD to an ISO image?

It seems I have found directions for using brasero to rip a CD to .iso file, but according to that, brasero is three(3) kinds of broken. recording image as cdrdao does not work, even after ...
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Is there a way to burn Ubuntu on a CD ROM? [duplicate]

I was trying to install Ubuntu on an older laptop which doesn't have a DVD ROM or a USB boot capabilities. Is there an option to burn the image files to a Cd ROM? I am pretty sure that the size of ...
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How to burn MP3 files?

Is there a way to burn .mp3 music on CD in Ubuntu 11.10? There is Brasero installed but I also installed k3b.
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How can I "verify data after burn" when using Brasero to burn a data DVD?

I have been trying Ubuntu for the last couple weeks. I have always used Windows OS in the past. Using Windows I am able to burn backup "data" DVDs and the burning software allows me to "verify data ...
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How can I install brasero in Ubuntu 16.04? [duplicate]

As Brasero dropped out of the core apps in 16.04, I tried to install brasero via APT but with no luck sudo apt-get install brasero The response tells me that there is no package brasero. Brasero ...
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How to install libdvdcss.so.2 (Library) to Ubuntu 18.04

I want to make a copy of a DVD with Brasero. But it asks for libdvdcss.so.2. I already did what was suggested at How should I install libdvdcss.so.2 (Library) to Ubuntu 16.04 But it didn't work.
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How should I install libdvdcss.so.2 (Library) to Ubuntu 16.04

I'd like to make a Copy of a DVD using Brasero Disc Burner. It says I can't do it because I haven't got libdvdcss.so.2 (Library), which I should install manually. I tried sudo apt-get install ...
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Are there more Brasero plugins available?

I'm coming to like Brasero more than I did before (hardly used it in the past to be honest), and now I'm wondering, are the plugins that come with the default install the only available plugins? I don'...
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How can I force Brasero to keep my mp3 playlist order of songs when I burn it?

I have an mp3 playlist in Rhythmbox. When I drag and drop it in a Brasero data project the order of songs is lost. In fact their sorted in alhpabetical order. As you can imagine this is awful for a ...
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Brasero doesn't quit properly

I noticed that the Brasero disk burner doesn't open if I have used it before, and it was still running, but invisible. I have to close it with system monitor and then open it again. I was wondering if ...
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Brasero is not writing discs

When I use Brasero to write disks, it seems the recording occurs flawless, but, the disk is unreadable. Xfburn is working well, but Brasero not. I would like to use Brasero, but it makes me waste ...
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Installing Brasero removes 100+ packages and impairs internet and display manager

I was thinking to have solved one problem with Paraview but have come across a bigger one with Brasero. A few days ago I wanted to install Paraview (amd64) in my computer (x68_64, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS) ...
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How to check if DVD-R is closed?

When I burn a DVD with Brasero, it asks me whether I want to close the DVD after burn or leave it open to add files later. How do I check whether a DVD is read-only or it's still writable? I am ...
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Burning a CD keeping original timestamps for files

Is it possible to do what is summarized in the title? I would really like the files on my disc and ISO images to be marked with same creation date and modification date as in original files. I mostly ...
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I am unable to burn DVDs. I have attempted to remedy this issue, but nothing seems to work

Weirdly enough, I WAS able to burn data to DVDs, as a matter of fact I just burned 2, but then it just stopped working. I tried using Brasero, Xfburn and K3b, and they all give some sort of error. I ...
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How to burn an ISO-image with root access only?

I would like to know how can I burn an ISO-image file in a directory (inside another partition) that I can only read with root permission using sudo. There is no left room, I cannot copy, move or ...
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Can I test a cue/bin image without burning a CD?

Can I test an audio CD created with Brasero (cue/bin files) in Ubuntu 16.04 without burning a CD? I would like to check that titles and other metadata are correct on the image.
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Why is my disc always blank after a reportedly successful burn?

After the tools report a successful burn, the disk appears to be blank. I tried the burn with brasero and k3b multiple times. Any suggestions to actually burn the CD?
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Brasero burn error

I get an error when burning with brasero on a blank DVD. what would be the problem? .. This the link to the error report: http://ubuntuone.com/2ekL3hVV10vPs0MZkVsOEr BraseroLibburn SCSI error ...
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What does "Burn the image directly without saving it to disc" mean?

I am burning an audio CD in Brasero, and so I've clicked Burn and a window comes up with one of the options asking if I want to "Burn the image directly without saving it to disc". What does this mean?...
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Disc burning software of Ubuntu

I want to compile and write Xvid movie files to a disc for playing them on a standalone DVD player which requires ISO 9660 file system. How can I choose this file system with the Brasero disc burner?
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How to record an audio CD with track information in Brasero?

I use the following process: I select the tracks on my PC and add the files to Brasero. Brasero then burns the CD correctly but, when I play the CD in a commercial CDJ Pioneer or in another player ...
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Brasero asking me to create an image

I want to burn some data onto a CD. I have added the folder I want to burn to the project and inserted a blank CD. However, when I press "Burn.." I am asked to chose a location to create the image ...
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DVD burning confusions (Brasero, K3B, and DVD remaining blank or corrupted)

I'm currently trying to burn information from my old PC (Ubuntu 16.04, 64-bit) to a DVD. Putting any blank DVD in my computer is recognized as a blank DVD, but I also get an error message that says ...
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Strange Brasero Problem

I was trying to burn a copy of the Zorin OS iso to a DVD+R in Brasero. It started out fine, and then it said "Ejected Medium" and ejected the disc. Then it said that an error ocurred. Why is this ...
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Can I burn a DVD with the "Disc At Once (DAO)" setting using Brasero?

I prefer to always burn data discs with DAO setting to get a reliable burn & wide-compatibility across players. I can find no DAO setting option in Brasero. What setting is Brasero using to burn ...
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Error:[Brasero Disk Burner]: You do not have the required permissions to use this drive

I just installed Ubuntu 11.04 and then installed some programs. Now, When I run the "Brasero Disk Burner" for creating an image from a DVD, It gives me an error: The image could not be created at ...
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Writing Previously Untranscoded FLAC files to CD

I have many FLAC files for writing on CDs. I have been transcoding them to WAV, before writing them to disk. I have since discovered that if I just copy FLAC files into a Brasero project it seems to ...
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Where does Brasero store its images?

I'm using Brasero under Kubuntu 14.04 to copy DVDs. Often it happens that I get a write error of one sort or another, so I want to try again without having to reread the source DVD. I assume the ...
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Burning DVD is taking too long

I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and I used to burn my DVDs with Brasero Disc burner without any problem until a month ago. But recently the process is taking too long than normal. The process proceeds as ...
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Burn 1 to 1 copy of a DVD

I know that I can use Brasero to normally burn a DVD from an ISO. But here is my issue, I am backing up my DVD collection and when I use Brasero to rip a DVD I turn it into an ISO that is 7.0GB or ...
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Unable to burn to DVD-ROM Discs [closed]

I have a problem. The problem is that I could burn a data DVD before but now I can't. I've had Ubuntu 10.04, Ubuntu 10.10, and I have Ubuntu 11.10 right now. I've tried cleaning the DVD-ROM, and tried ...
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Does `CD/DVD Creator` verify an optical disk after writing to it?

Does CD/DVD Creator verify an optical disk after writing to it? In other words, is the data read back and compared to the original? Edit: The OS is Ubuntu 12.04. Screenshot of the application ...
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Brasero yields "SCSI error on write(1248864, 16)"

I was using Brasero to burn a Win7 .iso for a friend (sorry, couldn't convince him to try Linux e.e) and when it was at 80% the process stopped with a "SCSI error on write(1248864, 16)". I burnt some ...
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How to delete recent projects from Brasero Disk Burner?

I burned a couple of things to dvd and the titles show up when you open up Brasero. Is there a way to delete them from it's history - I tried uninstalling it and then reinstalled it from the Software ...
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Can Brasero damage my drive?

My CD/DVD burner failed after using Brasero to burn a CD (which failed). I've ordered a new drive but was wondering could Brasero have caused the damage? It was probably just a coincidence that my ...
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How do I erase a CD/DVD-R

For some reason, the Basero GUI isn't detecting my CD when I try to use the blanking option there. I tried various terminal commands, none of them worked. If anyone could help me out here, I would ...
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Can't burn CDs/DVDs

I own a Sony VAIO VPCEA35FL Laptop, and I'm having problems burning CDs/DVDs. It seems that the burn process itself works, but once the disc is done, it can't be played. I tried Brasero and k3b, both ...
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Brasero says that a 700MB CD has not enough free space for 480MB data

Working with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I have a tracklist composed with Banshee 2.6.2 that consists of 20 tracks for a total of 485 MB. A CD with a capacity of 700 MB is in the tray. I then send this list ...
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Creating windows bootable DVD

I tried creating a windows 8.1 bootable DVD using Brasero (iso), the process completed successfully but it failed to boot from the DVD, it just goes straight to my windows desktop. How do i make a ...
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How do I burn a DVD with more than 3.8 GB data?

I use Kubuntu 12.04 with KDE 4.8.3 and wodim / genisoimage 1.1.11, but the problem is on Ubuntu (with Brasero) and occurred in Oneiric as well. Whenever I try to burn more than 3.8GB (approaching the ...
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Manually force Brasero to burn an iso on a defined image speed

I need to burn an ISO on 2x, but Brasero only let me burn it on 4x. Is there any way or any app who will let me burn on 2x?
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Burning M-Disks on Ubuntu 20.04

I purchased an external disk writer from ASUS. This one: https://www.asus.com/Commercial-Data-Storage/SDRW08D2SU/ And M-Disks from Verbatim, these ones: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01E0CUU1C/...
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Brasero crash burning audio CD

I am attempting to burn an audio CD but the project keeps crashing when I attempt to write to media. Here is the last bit of the .log file: BraseroWodim Launching command BraseroWodim called ...
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