Mac app that lets you change the contents of your CDR using the Finder

May 7, 2009 11:40 GMT  ·  By

BurnAgain FS is a Mac OS X app that mounts a data CD or DVD like a hard disk volume, enabling the user to 're-write' and modify its contents. Using BurnAgain FS, they can add, remove, and even edit and change files. This truly useful application has just received an important update.

The folks at Freeridecoding, the makers of BurnAgain FS, claim that version 1.3 adds a built-in erase feature for RW (rewritable) media, along with the improved Finder integration. Additionally, opened disks are now visible in the sidebar. Several minor bug fixes have also been incorporated in the new version.

While users cannot burn to a DVD more than once or to a CD more than once without creating a volume (CD icon) for each session burned, BurnAgain FS lets them do both. The software allows them to add, remove and edit files on a CDR, DVD+RW, DVD-RW and CDRW, without erasing, until the disk is full. They can even change the title of the user’s disk prior to each burn.

Best of all, disks burned with BurnAgain FS aren't tied to additional reading software or BurnAgain FS itself, after writing. One can access the media they’ve just written on all platforms. BurnAgain FS automatically preserves their special Mac file attributes (resource forks) as well.

BurnAgain FS abilities include: change the content like on a hardisk; change disk title at each burn; preserve resource forks; platform-independent format; usable with CD, CDR; usable with DVD+RW, DVD-RW. One of the known issues surrounding BurnAgain FS is that it sometimes remounts a disk with zero KB available and nothing can be added to it. In order to solve this, just unmount and remount the disk.

The program requires an Apple-supported Writer (internal/FW). The trial version of Freeridecoding's helpful Mac OS X program is limited to 20 trial burns (the nag screen is also one of the limitations).

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