Debian has a program called burn which will burn data and audio CD's using a simple command line interface. cdrecord is what does the real work, but burn just make it easier to use and does some audio decoding. However, for audio CD's, there is a program called audio_burn, and another called mp3roaster which are both more configurable. burn can be found at http://www.bigpaul.org/burn audio_burn can be found at http://thecodefactory.org/audio_burn mp3roaster can be found at http://mp3roaster.sourceforge.net I'm not 100% sure if these programs burn DVD's, as I don't have a DVD burner, but since they all use cdrecord which does burn DVD's, there shouldn't be any problems using them. HTH, Lorenzo