New, free CD burning app for OSX

Stormwatch · Post by **Stormwatch** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 11:30 pm

LiquidCD

From a quick glance, seems to be pretty feature-complete. I guess some people here might be interested...

Bertrude · Post by **Bertrude** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 4:25 am

Just had a quick look. Seems OK but I think I'll stick with Toast.

I have a lot of data CDs with my work on but they have numerous sessions on each CD. Anyone know of a burning app that will duplicate these as toast will only copy the 1st session on each CD.

Stormwatch · Post by **Stormwatch** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 7:40 am

Hard to believe Toast still can't handle multi-session copies... try Dragon Burn and FireStarter FX.

abydos1000 · Post by **abydos1000** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 7:44 am

Worth a look I guess... the ability now for Toast to span multiple CD/DVD for backups is a plus in it's favor though. Roxio also has been more generous in the past about updates than Retrospect (I grew tired of that program).

Stormwatch · Post by **Stormwatch** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 9:05 am

Something strange about Toast 7: supposedly it needs a G4... but a minor hack makes it run on a G3 just fine. Why would a company try to reduce their potential userbase on purpose?

Bertrude · Post by **Bertrude** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 2:00 pm

Sounds silly if you ask me. Maybe it's for the more intensive stuff like creating DVD's.

I've not seen 7 yet and still use 5 more than 6 at the moment. Does toast 7 have anything new?

abydos1000 · Post by **abydos1000** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 4:33 pm

One of the big new features of Toast 7 is the ability to do backups and span them across CDs or DVDs. Spanning wasn't a feature before. Each disc has a little app placed on it to rejoin all of the discs if you need to do a restore of your data. The files on each disc can be grabbed in the Finder, so there isn't a need to go through any special extraction process just to restore one or two files. I had grown tired of Retrospect and Dantz's upgrade policies.

Also, Popcorn is integrated into the application. I beleive altivec gets used for processing and compressing data for video DVDs.

Stormwatch · Post by **Stormwatch** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 1:47 am

As this app is under developement and seems to be improving quickly, I've been wondering... are there features that its creator could add to make it a more ideal app for burning Dreamcast emulators and homebrews? If so, people here should contact him and suggest it.

DaMadFiddler · Post by **DaMadFiddler** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 10:16 pm

*bump*

Well, I looked into this LiquidCD program, and it seems pretty neat. It also knows how to handle CDI files. Unfortunately, all the Dreamcast discs it makes for me are coasters...perhaps it's a DAO/TAO issue? There doesn't seem to be anywhere to set those kinds of burning options. Is there a way to set this for one or the other?