Countdown to Disco.app 1.0

As a recent switcher, the one thing that really sucks on Mac is disc burning.

Disco's fun but the UI is in need of a serious rethink. Disk Utility is great if you want to burn a disc unreadable by any other computer. And Toast..... well I didn't think it possible to build an app that sucks even more than 'Easy Media Creator', but with Toast, Roxio have certainly achieved the impossible.

Until Nero comes to Mac, disc burning will continue to be nothing more than a joke and until that day finally comes, I'll continue to do all my disc burning on a PC where I can use a real media creation app.

Ridiculous. These guys have really figured out how to fool the Mac web into all sorts of free advertisement. Not only will they get post when they ACTUALLY release it, they also get one a week beforehand, just so they can point out their little timer which is counting down the release of an insignificant useless product.

They compare it to Toast because that was the whole platform that the Disco guys used when they launched the program -- "Eating Toast for breakfast" or something equally asinine. There were also a ton of posts about how it was going to do this and that and revolutionize burning, and oh look, it has a smoke effect, and the authors' own blogs were filled with just too much hubris. Then when people tried it (myself included), it was just a buggy program that really didn't offer that much that wasn't already available for free. So, when yet ANOTHER post appears talking up Disco without it really earning this type of hype, people have a small tolerance (myself included again).

Why do you guys compare Disco to Toast? Disco is $15 while Toast is $100. Other than burning disks, they aren't parallel. It's a bit unfair. It sounds like a bunch of needless bitching.

Toast does a ton of crap that I don't need. I like having the option of a less expensive program that does what I want and I think the UI and smoke are nice (you can turn it off if you want). Be glad that there are other options out there.

The countdown is a nice idea and disco is a cool little app for just $ 15.
Now I'll go and send Jasper an e-mail and ask for a free license ;)

I bought Disco and well I kinda like it... I typically just use it to burn CD/DVD's I plan on playing on my DVD player... Disco just makes it easy to burn "hybrid" disc... far simpler than disc utility... I hate the smoke effect (i would rather give the cpu cylcles to folding@home)...

I do have some issues with it... like window resizing... easily removing files... a few stalls... and I DESPISE disc spanning as it just isn't smart. If I have two folders each around 800MB and burning to a 760MB CD you would think thats what 3 cd's nope I tend to use 4 cds!

Hi, i am the one who send the "tip" of the countdown, it was not my intention to bring something bad to this great site, i live in Mexico, my Currency is 11 times under valued compared to US Dollar, i also have this app for 5 USD = 55 pesos so, for me is a great little app that does the job, and does it in an atractive way... so, sure toast is better, but i can't afford it... so be nice with this page, it only grab my attention because of the countdown...

P.S. Sorry for my bad english...

Heh. I downloaded the demo a few weeks ago, see what all the hype was about. Looked in the settings... what, no smoke? It was supposed to show off as (almost quite) literally burning the disc, so... meh. Tried to backup some things I'd done that week.

*buzzer sound*

Three coasters out of three perfect discs. Right. Drag and drop to uApp. That made me happy. :)

Here's something Toast can do that Disco can't: create a Redbook-compliant audio CD.

Another Toast trick. Say you downloaded some FLAC files. What do you do? Drop them onto Toast and create a disc image. Mount the disc image with Toast and it will show up as an audio CD you can import with iTunes. Let's see Disco do THAT.

Bear in mind, I don't "hate" Disco. But it's way overhyped considering that it doesn't do anything you can't already do with Disk Utility.

Got it for $5, used it four times, got three coasters. No thanks, game over.