GNOME nautilus-cd-burner problems

[Nikolas Britton]

Doug Poland wrote:

>My son's a budding Unix enthusiast, but he's no CLI jockey yet.  In my
>attempt to help him be independent and burn his own data and/or audio
>CD's, I came across nautilus-cd-burner.  
>
>It seems simple enough, but it doesn't work.  I've got existing ISO
>images that I try to burn to CDRW and it chokes.  So I try a simple
>directory structure and it chokes.  I feed it a few wave files, it
>chokes.
>
>I know something about creating optical media.  For example, sometimes I
>need to run mkisofs, sometimes I don't.  Sometimes I need to blank the
>media if it's CDRW, I don't for CDR.  Maybe I want to burn an audio CD
>and therefore need different switches to drive cdrecord.
>
>So how does one tell nautilus-cd-burner these things?  I've searched the
>docs and the lists.
>
>  
>
Donno, It did the same thing to me so I learned to do it the (not so) 
hard way:

from man burncd:
 EXAMPLES
     The typical usage for burning a data CD-R:

           burncd -f /dev/acd0 data file1 fixate