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What is your favoured software for burning CDs/DVDs?

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I use Roxio Easy Creator 8 solely for burning CDs or DVDs for back up and despatch to editors. However, I suspect that the wider programme is trying to take over other duties behind the scenes. For example, in my cataloguing software I discovered that it had overwritten the disc titles of off-line media fwith its name ROXIO* thus rendering identification of those discs impossible. More recently it played havoc with my disc drive wasting several new discs. I have removed and reinstalled the programme but am still unsure about its pervasive nature. I wondered whether another burning programme would be more suitable; hence my request for members' experiences with other programmes.

 

Any recommendations or negative experiences with this form of utility software would be most welcome?

 

David

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Toast is the best CD/DVD burning software I have ever used.

Or, the Mac OS for simpler stuff.

 

Same as Uwe's question: I find the Finder and Disk Utility adequate.

 

What does Toast do in addition? Or easier? Or better?

 

Thanks!

 

--HC

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What does Toast do in addition? Or easier? Or better?

 

Thanks!

 

--HC

 

Howard,

The Finder and Disk Utility on the Mac is fine, but if you want to be able to control your burn speed, or more importantly, span disks for larger folders of files, Toast is about the only thing doing that. When I have large folders of files from a project, which may include RAW, selects, a Web gallery, etc., being able to burn a set of disks without having to divide up the files myself is great. Each disk has a directory also, so if you had a 13GB project for example, you could use Toast to span four DVDs, placing a file directory on each DVD. Then if you picked up any disk, looking for a specfic file, you would know where is was in the set. That may not matter to some folks, but with nearly 300 DVDs burned for some of my project archiving, it matters to me when trying to find a file.

 

Toast also handles audio and video stuff better than anything else out there, and the latest version now even burns to BluRay, if you have a burner. Nothing else out there that does all that, and yes, it is Mac specific. It also gives you the option to burn for Windows or Mac only or both, and you can encrypt things also for security if you are burning biz materials or more sensitive information. Very slick app that is head and shoulders above the rest. Now, if you do not have those needs, the Finder will do just fine.

 

LJ

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I have a problem with Roxio.

 

I use a windoze machine and do both photo and video work.

When I cannot use the XP utilities for copying to a CD, I use Nero.

 

The problem with Roxio is that it takes over too many things (like interrupts, I believe).

 

I recently bought a LaCie DVD burner with Lightscribe. This device used Roxio for its CD/DVD burning. When it was installed it TOTALLY disabled Vegas DVD Creator. As I had a backlog of DVD's to prepare for clients at that time, it was a little inconvenient.

 

Be very careful of Roxio if you are using software that burns media directly.

 

Fortunately, there is a feature in XP that allows one to go backwards in hardware terms. I was able to roll back and get rid of Roxio.

 

Caveat, caveat.

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Bill,

I think that is more true for the Windows side of things, but definitely not on the Apple side with Toast.

 

When I used PCs way back when, Nero was among the best for doing the burning. Roxio had its various CD burner configurations, but they were not as good, IMHO. However, on the OS X side of things, they run rings around almost anything else. All of the interrupts and stuff you mention are PC related only. On OS X, you can actually burn multiple copies or several different disks and stuff all at the same time, if you have enough burners to send stuff to. A colleague of mine has 4 DVD burners set up and he uses Toast to burn multiple copies of things for archive and clients all at once. Very slick.

 

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LJ--

Thanks for the answer to my question and also to Bill's regarding Toast.

 

I bought an earlier version of Toast when I couldn't figure out Disk Utilit's arcana; when OS X improved to where I could use the Finder, I didn't bother upgrading to later versions of Toast.

 

I had no idea there was a program that could save me the time of grouping files to span across discs. That would be worth the price right there!

 

Thanks for the clear & extensive explanation!

 

--HC

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The problem with Roxio is that it takes over too many things (like interrupts, I believe).

 

I recently bought a LaCie DVD burner with Lightscribe. This device used Roxio for its CD/DVD burning. When it was installed it TOTALLY disabled Vegas DVD Creator. As I had a backlog of DVD's to prepare for clients at that time, it was a little inconvenient.

 

Be very careful of Roxio if you are using software that burns media directly.

 

Fortunately, there is a feature in XP that allows one to go backwards in hardware terms. I was able to roll back and get rid of Roxio.

 

Caveat, caveat.

Bill, this is miserable news for a Windows user but in a strange way vindicates my starting this thread.

 

I am still hopeful that a member will post good news for Windows burners.

 

David

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Bill, this is miserable news for a Windows user but in a strange way vindicates my starting this thread.

 

I am still hopeful that a member will post good news for Windows burners.

 

David

 

What may have happened is that Roxio established itself as the default application for writing to optical media, in other words it associated itself with certain file types. In folder options you can set the default applications for all file types. In Vista they've dedicated a new applet for it in the control panel, Default Programs. I use the built-in CD and DVD writing capability of the OS for usual backups, unless I'm burning an ISO file when I'll use Nero or Roxio. Better control of burn speed and data checking.

 

best-John

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... I am still hopeful that a member will post good news for Windows burners.David

 

David, I have excellent results (in windoze) with 3 different types of burning software.

 

After all, if three will do, why be satisfied with only one? !!!

 

1. For my video work, I use Vegas. The DVD mastering portion of this software talks directly to the DVD burner. When Roxio was there, this software was disenfranchised (just like me, when I'm a voter ... ).

 

2. When copying files to a CD-R, I select the files and use the Send To option to write them to a CD. This option comes up if you right click in the highlighted area of the list of selected files.

 

3. When copying files to a DVD, I use Nero.

 

Why should it be simple? I wish I knew why Gates is such a sadist.

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John and Bill, thank you for support. Thus far it looks like Nero is less intrusive than Roxio on Windows machines.

 

I did try to curb Roxio's ambitions. Perhaps I should try again using advice given here.

 

Isn't it surprising that in a world when advanced technology seems to know no limits, a fairly basic task like controlling a CD or DVD burn should be fraught with so many frustrations!

 

David

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