Burn is a free disc burner for Mac OS X that extends the basic burn capabilities of both the Finder and Disk Utility that are built into the operating system. The application is very simple to use and provides a single point for different data disc formats, full disc copy and image burning, video and audio discs.

During use the software became a little sluggish when adding files to a new data disc. Despite this, the software worked as expected with it’s no frills interface. Burn can burn a number of different disc image formats including Apple’s native .dmg format and the popular .iso format. More obscure formats such as commercial disc burning software Toast’s image files, and cue/bin multi track disc images were also supported. Video can be burnt as VCD, DVD and DivX discs although more specialised software performed the job a little nicer than Burn could with it’s very basic interface.

Burn is a great open source application for people who need a little more control over creating discs. The application uses a very simple interface that both helps and unfortunatly limits creating more customised discs than the built in Mac OS X tools provide. Burn is free and can be downloaded from the sourceforge project website.

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