Generally,the Gnometoaster window is shared between a sourcepart filling the upper half and a destination part residing in the lower half of your screen.
The Sourcepart contains the various sources files or tracks may come from,e.g. your cdrom drives,your filesystem tree and a section called "internal structures",where all the structures usually created on the fly from meta data reside,e.g. "Isofs track",a virtual iso track containing the data edited in your filesystem editor. Creating a data-only cd is merely a matter of editing your Filesystem with the Filesystem Editor and dropping the virtual isotrack onto the Track editor.
The destination section of Gnometoaster is shared between the Trackeditor,the Filesystem Editor and the recording section. You can switch between them by clicking the icons to your left.
The Filesystem editor is used to create data tracks. The left part of the Filesystem editor section contains the current directory tree of your CD.
adding a file to a data cd is rather simple: select the desired file from your Filesystem tree displayed in the source Section of Gnometoaster. You can select multiple files by holding down your control key when clicking the files. You can also select a whole column of files by selecting the first item you want to select,holding down the shift key of your keyboard and clicking the last desired item. moving your mouse while still holding the left mouse button will solve your selection from the source window (the shape of your mouse cursor changes). Do now move the mouse to the directory of the Filesystem Editor you want the selected files to reside.Moving files into the filelist displayed on the right of your cdīs filesystem tree will create a copy of your files within the directory displayed there.
Select the directory you want your new dir to reside in and click it with your right mouse button. This will show a popup menu at the position of your mouse pointer. Select "Create Directory" there and enter the desired directory name.
to delete a specific file or directory (see adding files about how to select multiple files) select the desired file(s) and click your right mouse button. Select "delete" in the menu popping up at the position of your mouse pointer.
Using the track editor is rather simple at the moment as thereīs not much it
can currently do. Essentially you drop whatever tracks you want to have on
your cd onto the track editor in the order you want them to be recorded.
You can use all the sources displaying the upper half of your Gnometoaster
window including CDrom Drives,Internal Structures and files.
Gnometoasterīs preliminary filetype recognition currently knows .wav as the
only supported cd digital audio
format. All other filetypes will end up
as a data track on your cd.
Within the recording section the actual recording process can be initiated. To do so,simply click the record button. Make sure your cdwriter contains an empty cd recordable or cd rewritable medium. You can usually check this by selecting your cd recorder in the source section and seeing wether there are any tracks displayed in itīs tracklist. Additionally,you can use the "clear cdrw" button to strip a cd rewritable medium off itīs previous contents. Enabling the "TOC only" option will speed up this process immensely as the TOC (Table of contents) of your cd is the only thing being deleted. During the recording process youīll see a progress box appearing in front of your Gnome Toaster application displaying the current throughput of the writing process,the time elapsed since the recording process of the current track started and the estimated time remaining for the current track. As this message box is made modal you wonīt be able to edit anything within Gnometoaster during the writing process.