[Cube] OT: How do you burn a CD-R?

[George Pepper]

Well, the LaCie came with Toast Lite 5.2.  It works very well (That's what I had to resort to to burn the Data Disk for my brand new CD's cover art, liner notes, inner cover pic etc.).

When I said "never", I've used the LaCie with Toast, so I knew how to do that, and I record my music direct to hard disk and burn Red Book CD Masters with a Masterlink, so I knew how to do that too.  But, I've never had a writable INTERNAL drive in an Apple before, so I was expecting a "brainless" interface (Since I'm brainless, I use that particular Apple feature a lot).

Didn't know you could burn Data CD-R's from Finder though! (D'OH!) 8^0

(Oh, look.  There's a little "Burn Disc..." option under the File menu.  Huh.  Never noticed that before.)

Uh... BRB.

Pep

 
On Wednesday, September 29, 2004, at 02:06PM, Eagle <eagle243 at mac.com> wrote:

>On Sep 28, 2004, at 13:13, George Pepper wrote:
>> Stupid question, I know, but I've never done it before.  I can't get 
>> the Superdrive to burn anything for some reason.  If I insert a blank 
>> disk, the computer asks what I want to launch.  Disk copy, right?  So, 
>> I get Disk Copy open and drag the folder I want into it like it tells 
>> me to.  After what seems like an inordinate amount of time, it comes 
>> back with what I'm guessing is a rendered disk image, and asks what 
>> format I want to save it in (It has "Compressed" as the default).  I 
>> change the default to "CD/DVD Master" since I don't want any 
>> compression, and nothing happens... for-EVER.  Then a warning comes up 
>> saying that the disk has no data that can be read.  Why?  It's just a 
>> garden variety Fujifilm CD-R.  Why won't it work?  To top it off, 
>> there is no .dmg file on the desktop (Which is where I want it).  Did 
>> it save the .dmg somewhere else, or did the whole operation just fail? 
>>  Frustrating.
>
>Pep,
>
>The answer to "how do you burn?" depends on what you're trying to burn 
>and the OS on which you are trying to do it.
>
>For OS X:
>- if you're trying to burn a single-session data CD from files on your 
>hard drive, use Finder.
>- if you're trying to burn a single-session music CD, use iTunes.
>- if you're trying to burn a multi-session data CD, use Disk Copy and 
>individually burn the data tracks whose images you created.
>- if you're trying to burn a mixed-media data/music CD, don't ask me. :)
>
>> While I'm in the mood for a rant, the way this SHOULD work is that a 
>> CD icon should appear on the desktop and you drag files into it, JUST 
>> LIKE A FLOPPY DRIVE!  Why does this have to have so many steps?  Very 
>> un-Apple-like.  Guess I'll go back to the Xserve/LaCie/Toast combo.  
>> At least that actually works.
>
>If you use Finder, that's EXACTLY how it works! ;)
>
>I regularly burn data, music, and Video CDs, and the only software I 
>use is OS X and MissingMediaBurner.  I don't own or use Toast.
>
>Eagle
>
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