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CD Burning support in Panther
Authored by: BulbVivid on Mar 03, '04 10:52:02AM

Disk utility sounds like what you are looking for, although the burn app in the hint does bybass the copy process.

I haven't used the app a lot, but it didn't make any coasters in any of my tests. The app's pretty basic--it has a window to drag folders to and a burn button, as well as a few options for how the disk is created. I have yet to try it with a DVD-R, and I haven't played with it enough to see if it will do multiple sessions, though you can most likely do them with disk images.

Grab it here and try it out: http://homepage.mac.com/bulbvivid. Click the link to the page called "Lookin' for This."

If you need more features, I would suggest Toast. It's expensive, but has a lot of features. There's also a few shareware apps out there--I've tried DiscBlaze, and it does a good job.
Good luck



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CD Burning support in Panther
Authored by: martinx on Mar 03, '04 05:23:47PM
If you need more features, I would suggest Toast.

I would buy Toast if it had packet writing. I've been "pestering" Roxio on and off for quite a while for their "DirectCD" feature on the Mac OS X platform. I'm really quite stumped as to what's taking so long. There site has really been no help to me in trying to figure out if any of their OS X products support packet writing. Maybe it's not a popular feature, but I would consider it *the* feature, the *only* reason to buy third party burning software.

Of course I have a similar problem in general - software companies that give you no clue what platform they support, because they assume Windows is the only thing out there (or that you should spring for Virtual PC). bleah.

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CD Burning support in Panther
Authored by: BulbVivid on Mar 03, '04 09:06:58PM

I just wish Apple would include some easy, thorough burn software with the OS. I'd settle for being able to do multiple sessions without disk utility, and to be able to burn without having Finder copy the data first. Burning with Finder may be really simple, but it sure is slow and limited.

The Xcode examples sure have come in handy at work though.



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