Disco is a discontinued application for

Mac OS X macOS (; previously OS X and originally Mac OS X) is a Unix operating system developed and marketed by Apple Inc. since 2001. It is the primary operating system for Apple's Mac computers. Within the market of desktop and lapt ...

developed by Austin Sarner, Jasper Hauser and Jason Harris. The software is an

optical disc authoring Optical disc authoring, including DVD and Blu-ray Disc authoring, is the process of assembling source material—video, audio or other data—into the proper logical volume format to then be recorded ("burned") onto an optical disc ( ...

utility, which allows users to burn CDs and DVDs with multisession support, disc duplication, burning VIDEO_TS folders,

disc spanning Disc spanning is a feature of CD and DVD burning software that automatically spreads a large amount of data across many data discs if the data set's size exceeds the storage capacity of an individual blank disc. The advantage is that the user doe ...

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

application,

Roxio Toast Roxio Toast is an optical disc authoring and media conversion software application for Mac OS X. Its name is a play on the word ''burn'', a term used for the writing of information onto a disc through the use of a laser. Discs can be burned di ...

. Since its launch in 2007, Disco was available as

shareware Shareware is a type of proprietary software that is initially shared by the owner for trial use at little or no cost. Often the software has limited functionality or incomplete documentation until the user sends payment to the software developer ...

, requiring users to purchase a license after burning seven discs with it on a single computer. In July 2011 development was discontinued and a free license code to activate the application was published on its official website, effectively making the application available as

freeware Freeware is software, most often proprietary, that is distributed at no monetary cost to the end user. There is no agreed-upon set of rights, license, or EULA that defines ''freeware'' unambiguously; every publisher defines its own rules for t ...

."fscklog: Disco wird kostenlos"
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References

External links

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"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 MacOS multimedia software MacOS-only software {{multimedia-software-stub