Multiple Burn CD-Rs

[Haberdasher]

I have a friend who burned a CD with a Roxio Easy CD Creator on his windows machine, and he says that he has used a sort of windows multiple burn technology...the ability to burn 1 CDR more than once by progressively filling the CD up. Can I do this on my Mac (finish filling up a CD he has partially burned already on his Windows machine), and how can I get my Mac to recognize the CD he has partially burned? It doesn't seem to be showing up.

 

[King Cobra]

This is no new technology. CD-R disks do not allow any data to be written over. That is the ONLY difference between CD-R and CD-RW disks.

For the Mac, you must have Roxio's Toast Titanium (latest version).

To progressively fill up the CD, as you call it, each progression is simply called a "session". In Toast, set up your data/music (you'll know how to do that when you get Toast), click Record, then click on Write Session. Again, when you purchase Toast, you'll know how to do this.

 

[Haberdasher]

Originally posted by King Cobra
This is no new technology. CD-R disks do not allow any data to be written over. That is the ONLY difference between CD-R and CD-RW disks.

For the Mac, you must have Roxio's Toast Titanium (latest version).

To progressively fill up the CD, as you call it, each progression is simply called a "session". In Toast, set up your data/music (you'll know how to do that when you get Toast), click Record, then click on Write Session. Again, when you purchase Toast, you'll know how to do this.

I actually do have Toast-do you know if I will be able to recognize his CD if he's started to progressively fill up his CD already on his Windows machine, or will Toast not recognize the already started progressive burn?

 

[Schiffi]

Well, I think if you import his session it should. Though, cross-platforming the same CD may limit the times you can add to it. But overall it should work.

 

[Haberdasher]

Originally posted by Schiffi
Well, I think if you import his session it should. Though, cross-platforming the same CD may limit the times you can add to it. But overall it should work.

Cool- I'll be sure to try that tomorrow, when I can get my hands on Toast since it's not at my house, and hopefully it'll go off without a hitch.

Thanks for the help, y'all.

 

[jxyama]

you can do multi-session burn on OS X without Toast... but it's kind of complicated.

if you do multi-session burn, each session will show up as a separate CD on the desktop under X but the disc will be unreadable by PCs...

read: apple knowledge base article #107240.

link

 

[zarathustra]

I actually like the way multi session works in OSX (except that you have to create a disk image first). When I fill up a CD like that I can tell exactly which burn contains what files, instead of having to worry about remembering which folder contained particular documents. It's personal and subjective.

 

[Fender2112]

I use Toast Titanium on my Mac at home (OS9) and EasyCD Creator on a PC at work (xp). The glitch I run in to is that a CD formated with Toast is not recoginzed by the PC. If I format the CD on the PC using EasyCD it is recoginized by both computers. I don't transfer files that often (a spreadsheet or text file once in a while), so I have not bothered to troubleshoot the problem. I just make sure I keep a few EasyCD formated CD's handy.

On a side note:
A feature of EastCD is the ability to drag and drop files to the CD just as you would to a floppy (you remember what those are?) or Zip. I never understood why Roxio did not do this for Toast and the Mac.