Finalising dics, I don't want that.

[Ogleable]

LIGHTNING UK! ImgBurn always finalises discs when they're burnt. That kind of mutisession is not possible and you'll have to use a different tool I'm afraid.

 

lexx, on Feb 21 2008, 05:52 AM, said:

(...) and another question, if i Record in imgburn DVD+-RW disc it's Finalising too?

 

LIGHTNING UK!

I've no real interest in implementing multisession support as I personally feel it's a waste of time.

If I want my files on media where I can keep changing them then I'll use a USB pen or maybe mess around with a FAT32 formatted DVDRAM disc.

 

Whether you like it or not, giving users the freedom to finalise or not is the DE FACTO industry standard for burning software. So why don't you warn users that they are about to destroy every possibility to ever use that DVD-RW disc again?

 

I really would like that option, in what some describe as the best burn software, ImgBurn.

I have a good reason for it too: money and quality.

I use DVD-RW's to burn movies on, which I watch on my big screen tv. Using DVD-R's is just a waste of my money and just produces more toxic wastepiles.

 

Sure, sure, I get it, YOU don't see the point of this, and it's YOUR software. But you might wanna listen to your users as well, who obviously want this option. Not perhaps, your echo chamber of uber-geeks, but the average users.

 

Maybe you're a decisive sort of person, who NEVER makes a mistake when he burns something to a disc. Or maybe you're really rich so you can buy discs whenever you feel like it. Or maybe you don't really care about all this incredible waste, that using DVD-R's produces. (I suppose you DO care, just not really enough to really do something about it)

 

And lastly, what IS confusing, is that you DO have options/settings on finalising! yes, yes, I know it's about dvd-r's, not a dvd+rw, but that kind of makes it worse, since with dvd-rw's there's NOTHING the user can do. It's not illogical, but it IS confusing.

 

In the mean time, i will stick with MagicISO. That's sad, because I would like to use the best software, but now, I can't.

Finalising DVD-RW's is madness and waste of money and resources, and I have no use for huge stacks of DVD-R's. I really would have liked a better warning in advance.

 

Please, let me know when you've made it a tat more user-oriented.

Edited September 21, 2010 by Ogleable

[LIGHTNING UK!]

You do realise you can just erase a DVD-RW yeah?

 

Finalising them doesn't mean they can't *ever* be burnt again, that's impossible.

[Ogleable]

hmmm, no i did not know that, and I've always heard otherwise: Finalising means "The END" for both Dvd-RW and DVD-R's

 

either you or me lacks knowledge on this, but I am not the one who has the random 15 euros to go test-erase DVD-RWs just for the heck of it, girl's gotta eat.

 

But ... it seems YOU do.

Edited September 21, 2010 by Ogleable

[LIGHTNING UK!]

You lack knowledge on this, I know what I'm doing thanks!