Disco public beta and today-only macZOT price
Disco, the new burning app with so much buzz, has transitioned from a private beta to a public one. We've covered our fair share of Disco already, but to summarize: it has burning features that place it somewhere in between the Finder and Roxio's $99 Toast 7. One feature I didn't know about before though is Discography, a built-in search engine that lets you search through all the files you've previously burned. Users can search when the file was burned, when it was last edited, and to what disc it was burned - now that's innovation, boys and girls.However, today is the last day Disco can be had for the introductory price of $14.95. While you can purchase at this price straight from Disco's site, macZOT is running one of their zany deals where three lucky buyers will win a Lacie DL DVD Burner with LightScribe, and some sort of a bonus is included with every purchase. You'd better hurry though: as of this writing you have just under 14 hours to hop on the Disco + macZOT bandwagon, and after today, Disco's price rises to $24.95.
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Ok, 3rd post. ;]
There is the function but I can't find it. Is there a way to erase a cd-rw with disco?
To myself: read the release notes before post!
http://discoapp.com/releasenotes.php
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I read the close beta didn't have the erase disk function. Did they add it in last release?
October 31 2006 at 3:54 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI tried this thing out. It's pretty nice looking and very intuitive. The burn effect is neat, and I like how the buttons make it look almost like a ProApp. I think it needs some work, but as a beta, it's pretty sweet.
One thing I hope Apple implements in Leopard that this app has is when you deselect the window and go to a different running app, the drop shadow graciously fades instead of just abruptly fading like everything else does, and fades back smoothly when you re-select it. It's a nice little touch that I feel like will fit in with all of Leopards other eye-candy goodies.
why cant i make an image of any disc ??
October 30 2006 at 6:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyYeah, forgot to mention that the multi-volume burn is going to be especially handy for me. I always burn off my iLife projects after I'm done with them, in case I want to go back at some later point and re-use and/or re-cut some footage, change a transition, whatever. I used to do this by StuffIt'ing the whole thing, using the segmenter thingie, and individually burning off each segment to its own DVD-R. A real pain if you ask me. Disco is going to make this a LOT easier.
how do you know if you mac supports smoke effects or not? it doesn't clearly specify anywhere.
October 30 2006 at 3:44 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI admit that at first I thought Disco was kinda frivolous and silly, not something worth plunking down $25 on. I use Finder to burn data CD/DVDs, and Disk Utility to burn images (ISO's). Then I read this post which mentioned the Discography feature. The minute I read that, I headed over to macZot and put down $25 of my hard earned money.
Discography is a feature that will let you search the contents of every disk you've burned in the past. If you burn a lot of data CD/DVD's (i.e. backing up files) like I do, this should be a no-brainer. I have lost count of how many times I need to go hunting for a particular file, only to end up asking myself "Now, what disk did I burn that silly thing on again...?" Usually this ends up with me frantically digging through my entire pile of backups, hoping that I remembered to properly label my disks; or (as usually is the case, considering my poor disk labeling habits) inserting each disk in the drive, double clicking on it, and scanning for the file I want.
Having previously criticised this app, I actually bought it today. I don't have toast or any other apps, and the built in burning in OSX is very lite.
Works a treat. 8 minutes pay well spent. ;-)
ok, nice to see the audio feature has been implemented. It still has a ways to go. I still want to be able to drag and drop from iTunes.
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