Disco beta is out

Disco is amazing! I love it, especially the burning smoke thing... I think I'm gonna go write some more CDs, just for kicks.

I agree with Hervé. The days of charging for CD/DVD burning software are pretty much over.

Don Perreault,

Whilst your comments may have been deleted from the Disco website....

1. It's a beta. 2. There are ways of sending Beta bug reports and feedback (email?) that are not the blog post and would probably help the developer more. 3. Did I mention it's a beta?

I'm with the "this is no big deal camp"

I don't care if this thing dances an irish jig while blowing smoke rings while it burns a cd. This is old technology. There are many open source alternatives to things like Toast. Take cdrecord for instance (command line utility available through fink). I'm totally baffled as to why this is being hyped.. What am I missing, why is a cd burning application that blows smoke at all cool?

Ah, my comments were also deleted from the Disco website. All I did was ask why the smoke didn't work on my NEW Dual-Core Intel Xeon. OH Yea, I also mentioned that both discs I burned were coasters, very disappointing.

I am more disappointed in the fact that the developers delete comments that are not complimentary to Disco. Do they expect only compliments?

Too much Diet Coke, Ben?

re: "It's a fun project that has some cool features and it's fun to use. The hype is over it's superbly designed and easy to use UI."

You're right Jabberjaw, I am OBVIOUSLY missing the point. how fun is it to burn a frickin CD? It was fun back in 1998 when cd burners were the cool new toy on the block. Saying that "burning a cd is fun" is like saying saving a file to an external USB key is fun. It's BURNING A FRICKIN CD! How fun can it be? How well designed can a UI get to burn a cd? you have a list of files, hit the burn button and boom, you're done. sheesh, gimme a break! OmniGraffle, now that's a fun application. xcode, that's an extremely fun app if you like programming. but cd burning?!?!?!

Boys, for old and very well defined functions, the time is rather to migrate to free and open-source softwares: at least check Burn and SimplyBurns...

http://sourceforge.net/projects/burn-osx

http://simplyburns.berlios.de

Don't forget the other great App made by the same persons called Checkout !

It's a small store managment program, from stock entries to account reporting with clientaddress book syncing and a multi user interface.

Gone Public Beta today too on http://www.checkoutapp.com

I met those guys at the Apple Expo back in septembre and they're really cool!

The team was great about getting me a beta! I didn't pay, but just sent an email, and they responded with a link to a .dmg about 30min later.