CD burning : Java Glossary

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CD burning

Creating a CD or DVD by writing to a one-time recordable disc, or an eraseable re-writeable disc. To do this from Java, you need software that makes the CD look like a hard disk, e.g. Roxio DirectCD. However, this creates CDs that can only be read with Roxio software. To create standard Joliet format CDs, you need to create a *.iso file which is an exact image of what will go on the CD. You can create that with CDr tools mkisofs. Basically you give it a list of files, and it creates a giant *.iso file image. You can then zip that and email it or feed it to CDr tools cdrecord or Roxio CD Creator to actually burn a CD. This is fairly tricky since you must compile the C source yourself, and deal with ATAPI and ASPI drivers for the burner, and use CygWin Unix-like scripting.

Commercial utilities you might use to burn a CD include:

Alex Feinman’s ISO Recorder, by donation. CreatedCD, command line backup a file set to CD/DVD.
MagicISO$30.00 USD
Nero 8 Ultra $82.00 CAD . A friend of mine who has tried many of these burner programs says this one is the best. To get the trial version to install on Vista, I had to use the custom install option and select F:\Program Files as the install directory. Nero Ultra is an enormous suite of utilities that do many things besides burn CDs and DVDs. To burn a CD, click Nero Burning ROM in the start menu. Then open the ISO image file. Then click burn. It could not get much simpler than that, unless it prompted you. To utility to burn a collection of files is also unusually simple and fast. However, it proved overly sensitive, aborting when I tried to do little text editing on unrelated files while it ran.
NTI Media Maker 8 $80.00 USD . A slightly stripped down version of this program comes bundled with Acer computers. I found it relatively straight forward. This class of program tends to be aimed at the technogeek.
Padus DiscJuggler $50.00 USD
Roxio CD Creator $100.00 USD . The version I have no longer works in Vista. The upgrade is not free.

The following tools are sometimes recommended for the purpose, but I found them unsuitable: Goldenhawk CDRWIN, IsoBuster, NTI FileCD, WinImage.

backup
CD Burning FAQ
CDDB
CDR
CDRW
FreeDB: freed master database of what is on CD tracks
UDF

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