10.2.4 and CD Burning

[MacRoni]

I don't know when this occurred, but I am unable to burn a cd on my Tibook. When i insert the blank cd, i don't see an icon pop up on the desktop at all. Any suggestions?

[aethier]

Umm.. you dont use Roxio Toast or anything????
then how do you burn a cd in the first place???

aetheir

[Bear]

Originally posted by aethier
Umm.. you dont use Roxio Toast or anything????
then how do you burn a cd in the first place???

aetheir
With Mac OS X, CD burning ability comes with the OS. The Finder or Disk Copy can burn data disks (CD or DVD). iTunes burns audio and MP3 CDs.

A lot of people do not need more functionality then OS X provides. I haven't run into anything I need to do that the provided utilities can handle.

[Bear]

Originally posted by MacRoni
I don't know when this occurred, but I am unable to burn a cd on my Tibook. When i insert the blank cd, i don't see an icon pop up on the desktop at all. Any suggestions?
Go into System Prefernces and select "CDs & DVDs" and make sure the options are set correctly.

The default options are:

Blank CD: Ask what to do
Blank DVD: Ask what to do
Music CD: Open iTunes
Picture CD: Open iPhoto
Video DVD: Open DVD Player

I hope this helps.

[aethier]

Ok... how does disk copy work??? do you open it... then what. all i know about that utility is what phil, showed us at the power of X presentation at macworld sanfaransico...

also does anybody know what to do with .iso's when you want to burn them, how does that work???

aethier

[Bear]

Originally posted by aethier
Ok... how does disk copy work??? do you open it... then what. all i know about that utility is what phil, showed us at the power of X presentation at macworld sanfaransico...

also does anybody know what to do with .iso's when you want to burn them, how does that work???

aethier
To burn an .iso, you open up Disk Copy and select brun image....look around...it can be educational.