Hi guys
Just wondering if PA is still developing InfraRecorder Portable? This is not a request for update as I know things get done when there done and its done in peoples free time and so on. Just simply asking if PA.com is still developing the app? I've just been looking at the base apps website and thought about replacing Nero 8 on my home as Nero seems to use a Lot of resources when running.
Alternatively, are there plans to move to a closed source freeware app as PA.com's main burning app once freeware is officially supported? Also can anyone advise on their experience using this on home pc or experience substituting Nero with InfraRecorder?
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from the site here I think, so it looks it is pretty uptodate.
There is 046.2 on the authors website, but from the texts there I understood there were some issues with translations in other languages or what, I think therefore someone waits until this all is clear?
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
It causes the burning process (both to a disk and to an image) to stall forever on some machines.
Mine happens to be one of those machines, so I can't use 0.46.1 at all.
I had to revert back to the old 0.45 version just so I could use the PA format.
0.46.2 fixes this bug, according to the release notes.
So, for me, I would like it if we updated to 0.46.2.
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Hi solanus, you could create your own 0.46.2 in PA format. Just install InfraRecorder_Portable_0.46.1.paf.exe. Get the file ir0462_portable.zip from the original Infrarecorder website and unzip it to X:\PortableApps\InfraRecorderPortable\App\InfraRecorder (overwrite all old files).
I'm using that myself and had no issues till today.
I use Infrarecorder for all my CD and DVD burning, with no problems.
The only thing I haven't done is to build a boot CD with it.
Apparently it can, but the documentation is lacking.
Of course, if you have an image that is bootable in itself (like a Linux Live CD distro), it burns it just fine.
Why would we need to move to a closed source app?
I use open source for almost everything, not just because it's cheaper, but often times it's just better software.
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In regards to the question about InfraRecorder, I'm trying to switch to it from Nero as well. Here's what I've noted:
First I don't care about data discs. ImgBurn handles those wonderfully and I don't care that it isn't open source. It's freeware. And I found out how to make it portable so that's awesome.
It can do audio CDs, but if you want to finalize the disc, it will, but after every song, it'll give you a warning saying that some drives don't "like" finalizing discs. Won't hurt anything and the disc is totally playable, it's just a stupid nag that looks worse than it is.
Also it doesn't tell you how much space you have left. I don't believe it supports CD text either, but since none of my players do, I don't worry about it. (Last summer we rented a van for a vacation, and I thought I'd be clever and set the CD text settings in Nero for the Plies CD (I forget the name) but I didn't re-set them for the other CDs I burned, and everything came up as Plies. Stupid feature badly implemented and not supported in players.)
It does stuff with disc images, but again, ImgBurn. If ImgBurn were to support audio CDs I wouldn't need a second burning app.
I find too many bugs in InfraRecorder to be able to trust it in its early development stage. I prefer cdrtfe (portable version available as well on their website)
I like the look of that program. It just looks better than InfraRecorder all around. I'll try it out when I get home. (No blank discs at work, though I do have a CD burner/DVD-ROM combo on this machine.) It seems to have the bar that shows how much space you have left on the compilation, which helps out a lot.