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CloneCD is a truly excellent burning program and if you have to buy one specialist burning program on top of the included generalist burning app (e.g., Nero, Easy CD Creator) with your drive, I highly recommend this one.
CloneCD is designed for copying CDs or all sorts. It contains probably the best overall routines for copying those hard to copy discs (e.g., protected game discs), but on top of that, is excellent for extract full RAW images with all the subchannel data (i.e., DAO-96) for any CD.
Apart from the above, CloneCD makes a mark for itself by having truly remarkable compatibility with CD burners -- be they internal, or external via USB or Firewire. If you get a random external firewire/USB2 kit and put in a random CD burner in it, you can be almost assured that CloneCD will burn to that drive perfectly.
Of course, you can always grap the time-limited demo to make sure before you spend any money!
One S/VCD specific application for CloneCD (where it excels) is the burning of CUE/BIN images. As neither CDRDAO or CDRWin support external drives well or at all, many people have been forced to use (e.g.,) Nero or Fireburner. Neither of these programs support CUE/BIN well.
The best way to burn a CUE/BIN image then is to mount it with Daemon-Tools as a virtual CD (daemon-tools has excellent understanding of the CUE/BIN image format and will replicate all the subchannel data). Then, use CloneCD to make a copy. |
