Easy burning of CDs and DVDs

Mac OS X knows very things and task to solve easily and quickly. When you need to burn a CD quickly, nothing can be quicker than burning the disk directly in Finder using the feature of the operating system. But the abilities of Finder and Mac OS X are limited and burning Audio CD or something more complex can be a pain in Finder.

The issue comes in the moment, when you need something more difficult. You can burn music CDs in iTunes, but it is not comfortable in many situations. And the biggest issue is, when you need the disc, where the data and music are stored at once. Multisession CDs and DVDs are not that easy as well.

But there are several external applications, which will help you to make burning of CDs and DVDs easy.My favorite burning applications for Mac OS X are:

• Burn
• LiquidCD

Both are provided for free and their features are very the same. But sometimes, I like to work with Burn and other day I like LiquidCD.

Generally, Burn offers more features, including burning DVDs, but you need ffmpeg library to be installed on your computer. And it is not that easy to get ffmpeg working, mainly for the beginner.

With Burn, you select of several different target disc formats and with Data format you choose from 5 different versions to make sure, that users of Mac OS X and Windows will be able to play with the data stored on it. Automatically, Burn selects the format, which is compatible with both of them; just for Mac OS X more information is stored to make sure, the features of Mac OS X are fully utilized.

With LiquidCD you can do music CDs with a glance and you will enjoy the full comfort of Mac OS X applications. It is completely just drag´n´drop approach and you have nothing to take worries about.

Just try them and you will see. Do you have any other favorite application for burning?