The macosxhints Rating:

[Score: 9 out of 10]

• Developer: Kiwi Fruitware/ Product page
• Price: Free (Open Source)

[This is the Pick of the Week for the week of September 18th]

A recent posting on Command-Tab reminded me that I had downloaded Burn a while back, intending to take a look. So I did, and like what I saw, so here it is as a Pick of the Week. So technically, yes, I'm cheating by backdating it for last week's pick -- but I have had it on the hard drive for a while, if that counts...

Burn is an alternative to Disk Utility (free but somewhat limited) and Toast (not free but feature rich). Using Burn, you can burn data discs (in five formats), audio and MP3 CDs, movies in VCD, SVCD, DVD, and DivX formats, and disk images. There are lots of settings in the Preferences for the various formats -- you can set the audio and video bitrate for your DivX burns, for instance.

I've never found the need for all of Toast's features, but I've been looking for a tool with a bit more flexibility than Disk Utility. Burn seems to fit my needs quite well, and it's hard to beat the price!