AfterDawn: News

Typically we do not make news reports of software updates, but since BAO is the only good quality freeware CD-R application for Win32 systems, I think it deserves some extra attention.

After over two months of development the next beta of burnatonce is shaping up very nicely. With great input and testing from beta testers and donors alike many new features have been added - so many that after more than thirty pre-release versions the next release will be burnatonce 0.95 beta.



Here is an overview of the main features added:

-cdrdao now used for all writing tasks:

burnatonce 0.95 beta will support the latest version of cdrdao for all writing tasks - this resolves the stability and overburning issues experienced using cdrecord on a win32 platform. New features implemented from cdrdao are copy on the fly and subchannel data read/write.

Other improvements to the implementation of cdrdao include burnatonce locking the writer device on Windows 2000/XP to prevent other applications interupting the write process and the use of cdrdao's driver tables to ensure the most appropriate driver/driver options are used although users may still force the use of the generic-mmc-raw driver.

-Improvements to the burnatonce interface:

Many general improvements have been made to the interface of burnatonce both for ease of use and presentation. As well as 100% support for Windows XP themes the command log can now be stuck to the main window, burnatonce can be set to 'Always on top' and the last folder used for a particular task is remembered between sessions. burnatonce also checks whether media is writable and informs you how much space is needed before trying to write.

The use of ddump as a read engine has been improved by moving it to it's own menu option, showing progress in the console window and notifying the user if any read errors had occurred.

-Audio CD Compilation:

Huge improvements have been made to the audio compilation part of burnatonce with many new features added, these include:

-A CD-Text editor for artist/title information for the audio cd and it's tracks
-Use mp3 tags for CD-Text by default
-Fill in CD-Text data from freedb query
-Filter CD-Text data from filenames
-Automatic track splitting by list of track length

We are currently unsure of a release date for burnatonce 0.95 beta since there are still changes to be made and much testing to be done.

If you cannot wait to try burnatonce 0.95 beta you may like to think about donating which will give you access to the pre-release forums where you can download and discuss the very latest versions of burnatonce before they are released.



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Written by: Lasse Penttinen @ 10 Dec 2002 14:32