That's simple. Open one of GWorkspace.app's file viewers, select the files or
diretories, and drag them with the mouse to the "Data" section of Burn's main
window.
As files are not ordered, it makes no difference where you put them.
It is currently not possible to drop files into a directory
already in the resulting file system, but only below the top level item.
While files are simpy inserted into the data section, directories are treated
differently depending on how you use the modifier keys when dropping them onto
the compilation window.
The usage of modifier keys
- If you simply drop a directory without pressing any key at all, the
directory will appear as is in the compilation window. The effect is that on
the resulting CD you will find exactly this directory on the top most level
containing the same structure as on your harddisk. The result looks like this:
- Dropping a directory while having the 'Control' key pressed (this is the
'Link' operation) will insert the files and directories from within the
dropped directory into the compilation. This means that the
contents of the dropped directory will be on the top most level of
the CD's file system. The dropped directory itself (it's name) will never
appear. The result looks like this:
- Dropping a directory while having the 'Option/Alternate' key pressed
(this is the 'Copy' operation) will make Burn recurse through the whole tree
and insert all files in a flat structure into the compilation. All directory
levels will disappear. The result looks like this:
That's also simple. Again, open one of GWorkspace.app's file viewers, select
the audio files (of type wav or au), and drag them with the mouse to the
"Audio" section of Burn's main window.
As audio tracks will appear in a certain order on the final disk, you must
drop the files on the line where you want them to appear. Please note, that
you have no influence on the order of a set of inserted files, i.e.
if you drop more than one file at the same time, those files will appear in an
arbitrary order.
Actually, the audio files need not have the name extensions ".wav" or ".au".
Burn will accept all files as containing audio material. However,
Burn will be able to derive the audio format from the file's name extension
only if it is a wav or au file. In all other cases you must use the Track
Inspector to assign the proper audio file type to the tracks.
Audio files must contain 16-bit stereo sounds, sampled at 44.1 kHz.
Otherwise they cannot be burned as audio tracks to a disk or will be
misinterpeted.
While files are simpy inserted into the audio section, directories are treated
differently depending on how you use the modifier keys when dropping them onto
the compilation window.
The usage of modifier keys
- If you simply drop a directory without pressing any key at all, the
directory will be ignored . A directory cannot be an audio file!
- Dropping a directory while having the 'Control' key pressed (this is the
'Link' operation) will insert the files from within the dropped directory
into the compilation. Again, diretories inside the dropped directory
and their contents will be ignored.
- Dropping a directory while having the 'Option/Alternate' key pressed
(this is the 'Copy' operation) will make Burn recurse through the whole tree
and insert all files in a flat structure into the compilation.
To add tracks from an audio CD, you need a CD player application being able
communicate with Burn using Drag-and-Drop. Open the player's track list or
play list or whatever feature it offers, select the desired tracks, and drag
them with the mouse to the "Audio" section of Burn's main window.
As audio tracks will appear in a certain order on the final disk, you must
drop the tracks where you want them to appear.
Modifier keys while trying to drop an audio CD track will not be accepted.
Currently, there exists only CDPlayer.app as a suitable CD player application.
You may as well use the offered service 'Burn To CD' from those applications
that can supply the appropriate pasteboard data (see also
['Services.../Burn To CD']).