AcetoneISO is a

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software to mount and manage

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s. Its goals are to be simple, intuitive and stable. Written in Qt, this software is meant for all those people looking for a "

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for Linux". However, AcetoneISO does not emulate any copy protection while mounting. AcetoneISO also supports

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(*.daa) images because it uses the non-free and proprietary PowerISO Linux software as a backend while converting images to ISO. In recent releases (as of 2010), AcetoneISO also gained native support at blanking CD/DVD

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and burn ISO/CUE/TOC images to CD-R/RW and DVD-+R/RW (including DL) thanks to external open source tools such as

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and growisofs.

Features

* Mount automatically ISO, BIN, MDF, and NRG without the need to insert admin password. Only single-track images are supported for the moment. * Burn ISO/TOC/CUE to CD-R/RW optical discs * Burn ISO images to DVD-+R/RW (including DL) * A native utility to blank CD-RW, DVD-RW, and DVD-RW discs * A nice display which shows current images mounted and possibility to click on it to quickly re-open mounted image * Convert 2 ISO image types: bin mdf nrg img daa dmg cdi b5i bwi pdi * Extract images content to a folder: bin mdf nrg img daa dmg cdi b5i bwi pdi * Play a DVD Movie Image with Kaffeine / VLC / SMplayer with auto-cover download from Amazon * Generate an ISO from a Folder or CD/DVD * Check MD5 file of an image and/or generate it to a text file * Calculate ShaSums of images in 128, 256, and 384 bit * Encrypt / Decrypt an image * Split / Merge image in X megabyte * Compress with high ratio an image in 7z format * Rip a PSX CD to *.bin to make it work with

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/ pSX emulators * Restore a lost CUE file of *.bin *.img * Convert Mac OS *.dmg to a mountable image * Mount an image in a specified folder from the user * Create a database of images to manage big collections * Extract the Boot Image file of a CD/DVD or ISO * Backup a CD-Audio to a *.bin image * Complete localization for English, Italian, French, Spanish and Polish * Quick and simple utility to rip a DVD to Xvid AVI * Quick and simple utility to convert a generic video (avi, mpeg, mov, wmv, asf) to Xvid AVI * Quick and simple utility to convert a FLV video to AVI * Utility to download videos from YouTube and Metacafe. * Extract audio from a video file * Extract a *.rar archive that has a password * Utility to convert any video for Sony PSP PlayStation Portable * Display History that shows all images you mount in time

Limitations

* Does not emulate copy protection mount like

. * Can't mount correctly a multi-session image. Only the first track will be shown. * Converting a multi-session image to ISO will result in a loss of data. Only first track will be converted. * Image conversion to ISO is only possible on

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and

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CPU architecture due to PowerISO limitations.

Internationalization

* AcetoneISO is currently translated to: English, Italian, Polish, Spanish, Romanian, Hungarian, German, Czech, and Russian.

References

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"Featured Linux Download: Advanced CD/DVD management with AcetoneISO"
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'', 2007-07-18. Retrieved on 2008-10-05
"Mount and Unmount ISO,MDF,NRG Images Using AcetoneISO (GUI Tool)"
''Ubuntu Geek'', 2007-08-29. Retrieved on 2008-10-05

''nixCraft: Insight into Linux admin work'', 2008-01-14. Retrieved on 2008-10-05
"Featured Linux Download: AcetoneISO 2.0 Makes Disk Mounting Simple"
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External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Acetoneiso Free optical disc authoring software Optical disc authoring software Disk image emulators Optical disc-related software that uses Qt

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Internationalization

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