Hello, I hope this is the right place to make this comment.
I recently installed image burn on on my Windows 98 machine. I know it is considered a
dinosaur, but it is reliable. The reason was that my old burner drive (HP CD-writer+
8200) stopped functioning and was replaced with a TSST Tcorp CDDVDW SH-S222L drive. To
no one's surprise my old burner software(EZ-Creator from ADAPTEC) did not recognize this
drive. Being a frugal retired individual, I looked for free applications and discovered
yours. Some web sites stated that there would be a learning curve which I could live
with.
All that I use the burner for is to create audio cd's and some backup data cd's. I was
able to create some data cd's quickly. However, the creation of useable audio cd's
required much more time. This happened even though there is a nice write up on how to
do this. I had no idea and still have no idea what this "thing" called ISO is. I also
have no idea what Bin/cue means. The file format of UDF is also a mystery. The
description of file formats from my old burner software----
File System:
ISO9660: Select this option if you want to be able to read the CD on different platforms
including DOS, Macintosh, OS/2, Windows and UNIX. Files and directories recorded to CD
based on the ISO 9660 standard must meet the following (8+3) requirements:
A file name may not contain more than eight alphanumeric characters and the underscore
symbol [_].
A file name extension may not contain more than three alphanumeric characters.
A directory name may not contain more than eight alphanumeric characters and the
underscore symbol [_].
Joliet: Select this option if you want to use file names that contain up to 64
characters in length, including spaces. This is the default option and is used to record
most CDs. Joliet also records the associated DOS-standard name (8+3 characters) for each
file so that the CD may be read on DOS systems or earlier versions of Windows.
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I was interested in this due to the fact that other individuals in my family that I
share stuff with are "APPLE" users. This was the extent of my file system knowledge.
My first attempt at creating an audio cd( I use only wave files as source) appeared at
first to work. However my windows cd player thought the disc was a data disk. I looked
up the default file system and it included this UDF thing. I changed the file system
to ISO9660 + Joliet and tried again. same result.
I then looked at some more settings and set the write format to CD. I was using a CD-RW
and I thought that maybe the AUTO value did not recognize this media type. Tried again
and it worked. I do not know if the previous changes were required or not, I just know
that now I can create audio cd's. There may be other settings that have to be changed,
but right now that does not concern me.
The only drawbacks(minor) to your system are
1) apparently your settings are set prior to requesting a burn, whereas in all my
other burner software I tried, some if not all of the settings were established after
the burn request or you were given the opportunity to change them.
2) In regard to your help file mechanism. I would prefer not to have to use the
internet to get help. I would prefer some help files be included in the installation
files. This is probably due to my career as a mainframe computer programmer where help
files were always in written format. I realize that a web help file is more quickly
changed than a written and stored file.
Other than these minor problems(at least to me), I plan on using your product for my cd
burning needs. The Price is right.
