select and drag files and/or folders from upper pane to lower pane
click Burn button
settings tab: The defaults are usually the best. In particular, using multisession can cause problems when you try to read the CD later.
Copy CDs - make exact copy of data or audio CDs
Copy CD dialog
defaults are usually OK; could try Clone Copy if Normal Copy doesn't work
CD images - ISOs
an ISO is an image of the contents of a CD stored in a container file
creating an ISO
use the Copy CD dialog
in the Options box check the "Only create image" item
specify file location in the "Write image file to:" box (it seems that only the directory can be specified, not the file name. The file names end up as k3b_0.iso, k3b_1.iso, etc. These names can be changed as desired after the iso file is completed.
click start
writing an ISO to a CD; might be an ISO created from a CD or, more likely, downloaded from somewhere
Tools menu -> CD -> Burn CD image...
navigate to the iso file in the "Image to burn" box
Audio CDs
make an audio CD from MP3 files
Ripping - the process of creating data from a CD (usually refers to an audio CD)
audiocd protocol in Konqueror
formats: CDA (CD Audio), FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec), WAV (WAVEform audio format), MP3 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3), Ogg Vorbis (Vorbis is an open and free audio compression codec and Ogg is a container file format)
will typically rip songs from a CD and encode into MP3 format and load the MP3 files on a portable player