Disco (software)

Disco

Developer(s)	Austin Sarner, Jasper Hauser and Jason Harris
Stable release	1.0.3 / February 28, 2008
Operating system	Mac OS X
Type	Optical disc authoring software
License	Shareware
Website	www.discoapp.com

Disco is an application for Apple's Mac OS X developed by Austin Sarner, Jasper Hauser and Jason Harris.

The software is an optical disc authoring utility, which allows users to burn CDs and DVDs with multisession support, disc duplication, burning VIDEO_TS folders, disc spanning as well as a searchable disc index, dubbed Discography. Disco also features an interactive "3D smoke" animation which is visible when burning. This smoke responds to microphone input, as well as mouse input, causing perturbations in the smoke effect.

Disco was designed as a low-cost alternative to the popular Mac OS X CD and DVD authoring application Roxio Toast.

Since its launch in 2007, Disco was available as shareware, requiring users to purchase a license after burning seven discs with it on a single computer. In July 2011, a free license code to activate the application was published on its official website, effectively making the application available as freeware from there on.^[1]

References

• "Disco disc burning app hits 1.0", Macworld, February 12, 2007
• "On the death of the HIG and the triumph of eye candy over usability", ThinkMac Software, November 3, 2006

Notes

1. ^ "fscklog: Disco wird kostenlos"

External links

• Official site