CDBurn - CD writing for your RISC OS machine

Please note that CDBurn is no longer available to buy - it has been superceeded by CDVDBurn which does everything CDBurn did - and more.

Read everything about CDVDBurn

Introduction

Since the first CD-ROM saw the light of day, the medium that was once devised for holding high quality audio recordings has become the standard medium for nearly every software distribution.

It was around 1996 when the first CD writers became available at affordable prices. Suddenly, the medium that was only available when producing around 1000 CDs at a time became popular for a wide variety of use - custom Data and Audio CDs were just the first step.

CDBurn, introduced at Acorn World 1997, was the first CD mastering solution for RISC OS that was affordable and was available without a bundled drive.

Features

CDBurn is able to produce both Data and Audio CDs with a minimum amount of user interaction. While easy to use, it has some very powerful features not found anywhere else. CDBurn supports both CD-R and CD-RW writers and media.

CDBurn works together with a wide variety of CD-R writers and CD-RW rewriters. A summary of all supported and partly-supported drives is available here. CDBurn supports SCSI writers and IDE writers (on most computers/podules).

Some of the feature highlights for Data CD creation:

ISO9660-compliant data formatter
full support for Joliet extensions - allows you to write CDs with very deep directory structures and long, case-preserving filenames (ideally suited for making backups in conjunction with CDROMFS)
on-the-fly-writing capability - either create your ISO image before writing, or let CDBurn create it during the write process, saving valuable disc space
full multisession capability - enables a step-by-step writing process to make full use of the available CD capacity
full drag and drop filer-like Image creation
support for RISC OS CDFS extensions - enables you to retain filetype and date/time information in an ISO9660 compatible way
very flexible, user-definable ISO filename translation - enables you to enforce full ISO9660 compliance, or to create a CD which fully exploits the capability of a specific platform

CDBurn's Audio capabilities are also very powerful:

Extraction of Audio tracks from nearly every CD-ROM or CD writer
Very easy-to-use track editor
uses either raw or WAVE format for audio
Audio Disc at once capability - allows you to record true live CDs, no more pauses between tracks (this feature is only available for some drives)
Audio CD database feature - identify your Audio tracks by name, not by track number

Other highlights:

easy-to-use Copy CD feature
widely configurable to suit your taste
mixed-mode CD creation (first track data, other tracks audio)
support mailing list available free of charge
bugfixes available free of charge

Where to buy

You can no longer buy CDBurn, since it has been superceeded by CDVDBurn. So if you want to have all the latest CD writing features, even if you don't want to use the DVD related features right now, do not hesitate to order here.

The Future

In short - the future is CDVDBurn. It is likely that there will still be CDBurn upgrades available in the future, but these will strictly be "bug fixes only" type upgrades.

As you can guess from its name, CDVDBurn still contains all the CD-related features that made CDBurn the most successfull CD writing application on RISC OS. And it will surely gain more useful CD features as time goes by.

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